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>  Looked over at the coil and saw ignition
>sparks coming out of the rubber boot on the coil to distributor wire. This
>morning on start up just before it got light I looked back there and it was
>really sparking pretty bright and I could see it sparking in the wire in
>places near the distributor.

I'd start with a new set of plug wires. I'd guess you've got one or more
open ones and the spark is looking for another way to ground.
If you have an ohmmeter, check the resistance of each plug wire (including
the coil wire) Anything more than 15K ohms is probably too much.

Steve