Ok here's where I'm at after today's tinkering.
Yes I did replace the points,but didn't remember removing or replacing an insulated washer. And the kit did not come with one.Does it go beneath the points, above them?
All those ?s are relevant, but today I did the " hot wire " jump from battery to coil as mentioned above, to no avail.
No spark from a plug removed(as if I was testing for spark at plugs) and "jumper wire" to coil.
No spark coming from coil wire to distributor ( the bigger wire that is like a spark plug wire ) no matter how I try ( jumped or regular wired)
With volt meter on pos of coil and grounded, with key on=12.4v.......... While cranking dropped to 9.3-10v.
Resistance between pos and neg of new(and old) coils were 3.4ohms
Resistance between the in and out (?) of the resistor before coil =2.2ohms
I have no idea what ohms/resistance/ or any of that means, had my neighbor helping me.
Getting close to calling the ole "mobile mechanic" and pay him by the hour to unfangle things.
Still have a pertinent question>>>>>>> When I removed the distributor to replace points, I was pretty careful to put every back in the same order(firing order,points at same cam on dist,rotor button pointed at same wire,etc), although I could've missed by a mile.. If I missed by a mile,would the coil not fire? Or would the fire stop at dist? Any more ideas are welcome