does the dizzy button touch the rotor?

[Texas1971]

You are right - the key is putting it in right. Washer first is a long button, but only the tiny wire spring touches the coil. If you put the button through the washer then out into the cap, you get more metal contact to the coil but it doesn't poke out far enough to touch. HOW many v should the coil put out to the rotor when you put 12v to it. STILL can't get engine to spark.

[piecesparts]

Originally Posted by Texas1971

You are right - the key is putting it in right. Washer first is a long button, but only the tiny wire spring touches the coil. If you put the button through the washer then out into the cap, you get more metal contact to the coil but it doesn't poke out far enough to touch. HOW many v should the coil put out to the rotor when you put 12v to it. STILL can't get engine to spark.

Some coils are rated at about 30,000 volts and others go up to 60,000 volts. As for your spark issue, I am betting one of two items is shot. The ignition module or the pickup coil. The module is the black thing at the bottom of your dizzy housing and it is easy to change, but make sure you get some die-electric grease to coat the bottom of it. That way it won't arc across to the baseplate. The second thing that it could be is the pick-up coil that is in the very bottom of the dizzy housing and it has to have the whole distributor taken apart and the shaft pulled out of it to change it out.