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Originally Posted by dsraven
just to clarify, the HEI distributors take a large wire for power. the stock coil supply wire is not gonna work.
the starter usually has a big lug for the power supply from battery and a smaller connection to energise the solenoid and get the starter working. the old solenoid has 3 wires and the 3rd wire was to supply power to the dist when the starter was in motion because the normal power supply to "run" at the coil is a lesser voltage with a ballast resitor wired inline so the coil doen't burn itself up. what do you have for an ignition switch, the old fashioned key on the dash? a 10ga wire could be run from the ign post on that to the HEI as long as the ign switch also has a 10ga power supply that is fused. then the distributor should power up. if your truck was originally a 6 cyl it likely had a foot starter with a totally different style of starter that you are used to seeing and wouldn't have had a "start" position on the ign switch. the newer switches with that function for start are available, even at farm equipment stores, for cheap enough.
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Ignition is a column mount from a 1972 Buick Electra. Since there's no coil and ballast resistor due to HEI, there's no normal reason to have the run wire attached to anything, but somehow they had it connecting and functioning somewhere. i havent traced it back yet, its a nest of wires.