Thanks guys for the help. I put a new condensor on and then went to put new points on and the termial just fell off. I put a new terminal on and it fired straight up like all good Datsun do. It's always the little things that get us.

Hi Aegis

Just Check the Platinum point and its condensor, once that happened to me with a blown condensor

thanks
regards
sumith

I had this problem, there is a good distributor check list in the Wiki, i found that my Dizzy was not sending the signal to the coil to make it spark.

I replaced the standard dizzy with electric ignition.

I have had the same issue the last few days. Check with a test light power going in to the coil and across the terminals, and the -ve side to the distributor.
cheers
Bruce

Car won't start today checked the coil lead and had no spark out put grabed a new coil in and still nothing. Anyone have an idea for me what to do from here