Re: New to Packardworld-Just trying to get car started

Posted by HH56 On 2010/6/2 11:40:39

Welcome to the forum.

The positive battery terminal is ground, neg goes to one of the large posts on solenoid. There will also be a red wire on that terminal which goes to amp meter first and then out amp meter to ignition switch to AM terminal. From the ign switch, there is a yellowish wire on one shorter terminal (COIL) by itself (unless there has been an accessory added) which goes to coil and provides that voltage. The other side of coil goes to distributor points. The other wires on ign switch should be on the longer GA terminal and provide all the accessory as well as starter switch feeds. You can hotwire around the ign switch by a jumper from the battery solenoid terminal to the yellowish wire at coil. The black wire at coil should be going to dist points and if there is no problem in dist, should get a spark. To check the distributor, remove the wire from that terminal and with the hotwire setup to the coil, just tap it against the block. There have been others having problems with the wire inside the distributor. Being old and fragile, sometimes the fabric insulation fails & shorts the wire when points are changed.