Thread: 65 galaxie 352 burning points after 150 miles or less

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The resistor/resistant wire goes before the coil and there should be a 12v bypass from the starter solenoid to the + side of the coil so it gets 12v while cranking--

What gap or dwell setting are you using on the points---are you lubing the dist or do the points have a lube.felt rubbing block wiper???

Are all your engine grounds in place and good???

Do you have an electric choke possibly hooked into the ignition on circuit wrong?

I finally got the car running, turned out to be a bad ign. distributor, I had also wired the electric choke via the the oil pressure hot lead, as I put on a direct reading oil press. gauge. I disconnected that wire from the choke to be on the safe side.

I do not know if the choke was part of the problem, but it is out of the equation now. the rebuilt dist seems to be working fine, have put 300 miles on the car. Thanks for all the help, R.