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I know it's just a key stroke error, but I have to respond to the inadvertant humor in the last post.

Does replacing the squirrels under the hood with "pugs" give a tracker more horse power?

You say the distributor end was bad as well? Check your distributor cap for carbon caking which can cause a dead short to ground. Also check the rotor gizmo under the distributor cap for damage. Plugs and wires are also a good bet. Make sure your alternator output voltage is in range. Something is causing too much current to pass through the coil, etc. and burning it up.