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**VetteVet** · 08-01-2017, 12:35 AM

Sounds like the coil or the resistor is shorted to ground. When you turned the key on and left it on for 20 minutes you may have shorted the coil.
When the key was turned to start (purple wire) the hot red wire and the shorted green wire
connected with the purple wire and shorted it to ground causing the smoke.

When you hot wired the burned up coil it should have caused the hot wire to smoke unless the coil windings were burnt in two, which would explain the no start.

Are you running your wiring through an amp meter or to a battery gauge?

08-01-2017, 12:35 AM	#2
VetteVet Msgt USAF Ret Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan Posts: 8,703	Re: 55 Cameo letting the smoke out of wiring. Help really needed. Sounds like the coil or the resistor is shorted to ground. When you turned the key on and left it on for 20 minutes you may have shorted the coil. When the key was turned to start (purple wire) the hot red wire and the shorted green wire connected with the purple wire and shorted it to ground causing the smoke. When you hot wired the burned up coil it should have caused the hot wire to smoke unless the coil windings were burnt in two, which would explain the no start. Are you running your wiring through an amp meter or to a battery gauge? __________________ VetteVet metallic green 67 stepside 74 corvette convertible 1965 Harley sportster 1995 Harley wide glide Growing old is hell, but it beats the alternative.