Technical Sideways mounted coil? Measuring Ohms?

Yes, of course. A 6V ignition system and a 12V system with a ballast resistor could easily use the same coil if the physical connections are the same. Again, a 1.5 ohm primary coil resistance is common to both systems in most older points-style automotive applications.

 

Just to make things clear, for anyone following what I’ve put up, it’s not to argue but to learn more.
Yes, at near 60 I can learn a lot. Steve and Jim have mentioned, said enough to make me open my eyes wider.

Okay, glad @Squablow got it running right!

 

I'm still not convinced it's right, it's possible the advance in the distributor is not working and I just found a happy medium where it seems to run well enough, but this has definitely taught me a lot about ignition systems that I did not know before.

I will get it timed properly and check the function of the advance and report back on the Stromberg distributor when I can.

 

I am not a fan of ballast resistors. I use a 1.5 ohm coil with a 6 volt system and a 3.5 ohm coil with a 12 volt system.

 

Not that it has anything to do with the problem under discussion; but
Ford used ignition ballast resisters; under the metal shield on the inside of the firewall in the '30s and under a similar shield mounted right on the coil in the '40s; I don't know if they continued later.

 

Yep, looks just like the resister on the 9N-2N-8N and some later 6V tractors- even my 850 had one

 

Any particular reason?

 

What were the ohms for the ignition coil and ballast resistor in the 6 volt system? I've heard they used ballast resistors as well, but I could never figure out why.

 

Dwell changes timing .

 

Sorry for the off topic post, but since this picture was posted.... There is a tool for alinging points. It used to be standard procedure to check every set installed. And there's even a tool for doing it. Mine vanished years ago, but I found a picture on the interweb.

 

Yesterday I realized a prior owner put an Autolite coil on my Chevy. Previously I had noticed the ballast resistor had been removed, and I put one back on. I'm measuring the coil at about 3.5 ohms. So now I'm at about 5 ohms when running. Seems to start and run fine. Book spec on my car are 1.5 for both coil and resistor. Guess I'll stick a Delco back on it.

So did Ford use these coils without a resistor or starting circuit?

 

12 volt point systems had a resistor divider network, for the start system. ~ 1.4 ohm coil and 1.4 ohm ballast

A 3.5 ohm coil, maybe that was used with Duraspark or something like that?