Actually I should not have suggested it, I forgot that it ain't like th old (2) zigzag dists that had 2 regular pickups slightly offset from 180 away from each other. To the best of my knowledge it is dist related, dragging will zap the plugs but the dist hooked up will not. Howabout we call Jegs & see what they are willing to do to help us resolve this. did we ohm the pickup? & with the scale on low AC volts on the zigzag if you spin the dist by hand will it give a reading?