[scouse]

I have a 1995 bullet. It was put away last year working fine. I put in a new battery and it won’t start, battery is fine. I noticed that the amp meter is not responding. Put the tester pos lead on the. battery and have power to the points, rear light and fron light. No spark on the plug. Coil and other parts are new. Any help please

[AzCal Retred]

Ammeter will tell you if coil is drawing current with points closed, stopping when they open. The point surfaces can develop a film over time that blocks current flow. Contact cleaner/alcohol & a strip of thin grey uncoated cardboard will burnish them up nicely. They MUST be conductive. Make certain there is <0.5 ohms back to the battery (-) from the distributor casting.

"New" doesn't guarantee anything with electrical bits. Liberate the points wire & tap it against battery (-). or a proven "ground".  IF there is (+) to the coil YOU become the points. A quick on/off tap will yield a spark, preferably blue.

I really like the Mallory brass case condensers. Very business-like. Mine end up at the coil, less condenser killing heat & vibration, more room in the distributor. Electrically it doesn't matter. Condensers can spontaneously just die too.

[scouse]

Thank you

[Yinzer]

Points are wonderful.
Bypass everything and just run power to the coil.
Troubleshoot from there.
No reason to complicate things.

[Paul W]

Points are far too complicated for me, they’ve got moving parts and those unpredictable waxed paper capacitors for goodness’ sake! 

[AzCal Retred]

The first wax paper cap I ever saw was on an AJS 250 Stormer. I wondered why someone had stuck a semi-chewed gum wrapper on the points.

[Paul W]

Even the metal bodied ones have similar gubbins inside. At one time I was buying three for my old car, just to increase my chances of getting one that worked.

[scouse]

Well the problem was in the headlight with some black wires not completing the circuit through the ampmeter