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David Stanton
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    Note that getting a resistance reading on both primary and secondary does not insure that the coil is good – the insulation can be breaking down shunting the high voltage secondary spark current to ground. This is the way they usually fail, and an ohmmeter reading will not tell you this.
    Dave