| >     Ross, your distributor ought to finction quite happily with an open 
>     circuit (as measured by an ohmmeter), so 20Kohms does not neccessarily 
>     imply it is bad. 
>     
.......snip.....
>     PS. you may have a bad distributor cap -- I'm just pointing out that 
>     the evidence you have presented so far is not sufficient to convict!
>
Thanks Simon,
 
The cap WAS the problem.  It was convicted on circumstancial evidence and
summarily executed yesterday.
 
As a point of interest the resitance on the new cap at the same junction was
almost nill, around 4 ohms I think.
 
Cheers,
   ___        \______           Ross MacPherson 
  / __ \ __ /       /------|)   arm@unix.infoserve.net
/  (___)---------/ (___)        Vancouver, Canada
 1947 MG-TC 3528                1966 MGB-GT (running, ready, but not 
insured....)
                                                            
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