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Originally Posted by Already Gone
I put a Petronix complete distributor and 50k coil on my stock 72 C10 with 350 and auto trans, 4 years in no issues except tach doesn't read right but pretty sure that's a tach issue. Which resistance wire you talking about?
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The wire from the firewall bulkhead to the factory coil was a resistor wire on my 72. I think it is meant to drop the voltage to prevent burning up the points. It took me a couple of years, a couple of carburetors, and a whole lot of head scratching to figure that one out (pre-internet days).