Re: coil continuity

["A. Bjorkheim" <andreb@u.washington.edu>]

> okay so I pulled the coil out and if  I am reading my ohmeter correctly, the
> resistance from the pos. to the tower is ~3100 ohms, within spec. the
> resistance to the pos and neg is ~1.2 ohms, out of spec. the book shows .5 to
> .7 ohm. my question is , is it out of spec bad enough to be fatal to the
> starting of the car?
> 
    Did you measure the resistance of just the wires on the meter?  That
could easily be 0.5 ohms or so.  On mine the resistance offset is about
0.4 ohms.  Something to keep in mind.

 Andre'
 Neon Green 79

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