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Old 05-15-2016, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
Even if there was just the tiniest gap between the rotor tip and the terminals, that would be jumped easily by high voltage, but not register as connected with a VOM, I would think the rotor tip would touch at least some of the terminals as you rotate the gear. Any chance the rotor prong is not touching the iron ball?
This will not work as a test, I have never heard of anybody doing this.

EVERY distributor has a tiny airgap between the rotor tip and the spark plug terminal.
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