Hey guys, I picked up a 72 GT Wagon last week and I'm having a couple issues with it. It was driving fine until Monday when I went to go to work. Going down the road just fine and came to a stop sign. Went to pull away from the stop and the motor died. Worked and worked and worked to get it going again and finally it started back up. I limped it off to the side of the road and it died again. My initial thought was that it wasn't getting fuel. It has a Holley 2300 2bbl. I opened the hood a manually pumped fuel into the carb. Upon pushing the throttle body open I saw and heard fuel entering the carb. It wasn't a fuel problem. Still no start. Next guess was to go to plugs/wires/spark. That's when I noticed the HEI. I don't know how I missed it before. It has an external coil on it, and a monster cap. My thought now is that the coil might be bad. I pulled all the plugs and put new ones in it, still no start, pulled the wires and changed them, no start.
My question is, I have a brand new, never installed, stock style ignition coil. Is it possible to use this coil with the HEI distributor, or will it not supply enough power to the system? I just wanted to try it out to see before I went and bought a new HEI coil at $75+. The HEI coil has 4 prongs on top of it, 2 pos and 2 neg. One pos and one neg comes off the distributor, and the others come out of the wiring harness. Stock style coil only has 2 prongs, one pos and one neg. If it's possible to use this distrib, could I just sandwich the two sets and connect to the single like terminal (+ or -) on the coil?
Been lurking a long time and finally decided its time to ask the experts. Thanks for your help.
CK