In the Center of the picture, a squared off (fusible link?) that has both wires disconnected.

Thanks!

 

It's voltage reducer for the points.

 

Its an ignition ballast resistor for a points distributor.

 

It's a ballast resistor. I know in 67 the resistor wire was used by GM. Has it been removed or did it change from model to model?

 

More to the point, it isn't factory. Someone added it. Olds used a resistor wire in the harness, not an external resistor, for point distributors.

 

Thanks all. I’m pretty sure this has a non-points dizzy, one of many things I need to research (I assume setting the timing will be different). Subject of another thread for sure.

 

The coil (and thus timing) neither knows nor cares if the spark is triggered electronically or with points. Initial timing depends on CR, cam, gasoline quality, and the current mechanical and vacuum advance curves. It does not depend on points or electronic triggering.

 

good points (pun intended!). I have no idea at this point what kind of advance provisions are in the distributor so I was guessing (maybe wrongly) that setting initial timing may have a different procedure.