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Originally Posted by dmjlambert
The truck had a resistor wire going to the coil when it left the Chevy factory, so it depends on whether when you installed the HEI distributor did you wire it fresh from a key-on 12V source, or did you just move the wire you had from the coil to the HEI distributor. If you have proper HEI power wired up, then you don't need the R terminal nor the diode.
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I just moved the coil wire on the points system to the hei and it worked fine. Thank you for clearing this up . Out of curiosity where was the original resistor/diode located? Outside under the hood or in the cab?