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Don't know where to look. New coil, wires, condenser, rotor, cap. Ignition switch at least gives power to the gauges.

But no spark.

Was running well then nothing.

Ideas?

Accidental grounding in the distro? Bad coil?

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If you can remove the wire between coil and dist at distributor, ground to block and get a spark when ungrounding then check the distributor carefully.

The old fabric covered wires have a nasty habit of the cloth insulation deteriorating and then flaking off when disturbed. Several have had the same symptom after a point or condenser change.

I would look very carefully around any retaining clips for a bare wire. If the wires pass under the breaker plate check carefully there as well. The vacuum advance moving the plate can cause the wires to flex and touch.

If no spark when doing the test, then as Kev suggests, coil or possibly the wire between coil and ign switch or switch itself. One poster installed a "new" rebuilt ign switch which was faulty. The feed to the coil was bad but other terminals were good. If you have the coil connected to switch via armored cable, others have reported failures with that wire shorting inside to the armored conduit.

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Coil throws a strong spark.

I blew out the dist with air.

It looked like condenser wire might be touching metal so reconnected further away.

I sporadically get a weak spark to a spark plug wire.

This dist has no internal wires (condenser on outside)and no vacuum advance. 1940 110