distributor and coil question

[cp_66_c20]

I have a 66 chevy c20 that i am working on getting up and running again. It has the 283 with the 4 in the floor. I had a volt meter on the wire coming from the center of the cap while i was trying to start it and i had 0 volts, So i replaced the cap and roter. I am unsure if it the HFI distributor or what but i removed the wires bolted to the coil and i wanted to see if anyone knew if it mattered what way the wires went back on the coil i also wanted to see if someone would know why i am not getting 12volts to the coil from the distributor? Any help would be awsome and pictures are good too lol. Thank you .
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[HEI451]

The distributor doesn't regulate, nor supply voltage to the coil.

A points distributor will have a remotge mounted round copil.

An HEI will have a coil mounted in the cap itself.

I will go for the points type. There should be ONE wire coming out of the bottom of the distributor body, it goes to the negative (-) terminal on the coil, and nothing else.

There should be one of two different methods for power to the coil

First is a resistor wire from the ignition switch to the positive (+) terminal on the coil, with a separate wire from that coil terminal to the starter solenoid.

Second is a single wire in the loom frojm the ignition switch, to the starter solenoid, then up to the coil + terminal.

Measure trhe volts at the piositive terminal on the coil, with the engine not running, ignition switch to run, then start, then, if yhou get it running, + with engine running, a nd post what you get for us to tgake a look at.

[cp_66_c20]

Ok. I will do that this weekend. thank you for the help.
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