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I had an old truck that started to eat points every couple of weeks. Traced it down to a bad ballast resistor. Did you have a ballast resistor at one point that was taken off? With point ignition, if you do not have a ballast resistor, then you need a coil with an internal resistor. Pertronix sells both, so check the part number and make sure that you have the right coil.

On that same vehicle, I upgraded to Pertronix flame thrower coil and wires and it started to eat points again. I finally determined that this was happening because of the high coil voltage. I could never figure out if the coil was burning up the condensor or ballast resistor, but I permanently solved the problem by installing a Flamethrower coil with an internal resistor and a Pertronix Ignitor.

FYI, Pertronix was very helpful over the phone.