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:D The coil is negative switched, ie to ground. So your probing with the multimeter and seeing +12 volts on both terminals, well thats good, it hasn't gone open circuit. The points, or electronic dizy will close, that will drive one terminal to 0V, and a current will pass through it. When the point...

steptoe wrote:I have yellow wires marked as NEG and connected to NEG of the coil on my 86 L Series EA82T . I gues by now you have worked it out. The blacks and black with red go to POS

Yes as mine is but it had me thinking. The multi meter has them both as positive, how is that working. it has me perplexed.

I have a 1986 Subaru leone and the wires off the coil to the distributor are not connected so just checking that the yellow is to positive.
Thanks