[Jeff Higgins]

Kurt, make sure that condensor connection to the points is not directly grounded. In other words, it should be to the same side of the insulated terminal on the points as the coil wire. Like the coil wire, it should only be grounded when the points are acually closed. Most of the time there is a flat metal connector that has a "U" shaped cut on it that slips over the post on the insulator on the points. If you slip it down into the wrong side of the plastic insulator, it can contact the fixed base of the point assembly, the part that is screwed down onto the distributor. If that's the case, and it is grounded all the time, then it is out of the loop, so to speak, and doing nothing at all. And you'll burn through points like crazy.