The ground wire is for a steel shell that drops over the distributor cap.
Suppose it is for screening of radio interference.

Stan

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:03:49 +0000 Joseph Fortino
<fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> anyone grounding their distro to a good ground conection such as
> the
> motor top? looks like i have the little tab but the ground wire is
> missing.
> does the distro body ( metal ) need grounding to other grounds?
>
> Thanks much
> Joe 85 GL
>
>

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