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How does one test a pickup to see if it's bad? Can I look at it and see or just odomething you have to swap to find out?



In order of best to worst.

If you have an oscilloscope, you can pull the distributor, hook the O scope up to the leads, rotate the distributor by hand, or with a drill at slow speeds and observe the output. Maybe heat it up with a hair drier to see if it fails when hot.

If you have an analog voltmeter you can put the range to it's lowest setting and do the same test only you will be looking at needle deflection.

You can ohm it out as well, maybe use the heat idea to see if the resistance changes substantially when hot.

If you have none of the above you can swap it out with a known good unit.

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