Hey guys! I wanted to first thank all of you for having a resource like this.
I've got a '66 Ford T'Bird w/a 390 4BBL Carb. I just purchased the ol lady about a month ago in quite a few pieces. I've got the parts from the tank to the engine now installed and ready to go, however while I was going through the engine and comparing the information to my Tbird shop manual I noticed something weird.
The distributor has a positive and ground wiring coming out from inside of it. Both of those wires (+ & -) are then hooked to the ignition coil. There then seems to be a wire coming from the firewall to the ( - ) side of the ignition coil. I've looked at the wiring schematics, online and nothing that I see has reference to this type of distributor setup. I then started looking at more of the electrical and noticed a few other interesting things such as the positive side going to what looks like the block. I've attached a few pretty large images of the wiring so you can see a little better.
The reason why I even bring all of this up is that I've been testing the spark. The distributor turns, but the wires are not getting any spark... so I was going to buy a new distributor, starter relay, new wires, etc... but thought I'd get the first question out of the way first.
Is there something missing that I am missing from the ignition coil? Are the wires from the distributor supposed to go to the coil? Has anyone seen a 2 wire distributor, the ones I've researched are all 1 wire.
Any other information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
