[lm6y]

Milt, replace the hall effect pickup coil. The heat of the engine bakes the wires, and the wires become brittle, and break right where the pigtail enters the pickup coil body. the added resistance in the wire often eats ignition modules. At best this causes an intermittant ignition problem, at worst, it shuts the whole thing down. These used to be sold by the color of the lead wires for the right one.

You have to remove the distributor, remove the roll pin that holds the drive gear on, and then disassemble the distributor to get to it. Just put it back together the way it came apart (pay special attention to the washers under the drive gear as this sets the gear mesh between the cam gear, and the drive gear on the distributor).

I assume you know how to take it out, and re-time it once it goes back in.

How does the carbon button, and spring look under the coil?

If the coil is good, gets power, a good ground, the module is good, the pickup coil is about the only thing left.

Hope it helps!