This is a shot of the plug wires, I had already moved some of them as they were hanging up the throttle linkage on occasion. A mess, time to sort it out.

I decided that I would clean up the plug wires. Bought a set of cut to fit MSD wires, a crimper, some wire separators and crucially some straight boots and terminals for the distributor end of the wires.

Here we have the plug wire kit laid out. It comes with 6 long spiral wound wires, 8 90 degree boots, 8 HEI/spark plug ends, a pair of coil wire ends and a crimper. The instructions are pretty decent.

Since this isn't a GM product and I am not running an HEI distributor the ends of the plug wires that attach to the distributor need socket ends. The wires will fit best with straight boots, not 90 degree boots. I had a bucket of warm soapy water to put the boots in. This helps them slide on easier when assembling the wires.

Here we have a hand crimper. Though the crimper MSD includes works fine I prefer this tool. This will cut the wire without nicking the conductor, follow MSD's instructions on length.

I did the coil wire first since there was plenty of extra to make another if I messed up. You'll note there is an 180 degree boot on each end.

I found that my replacement coil, the blue one, was not a socket fitting but some type of stud. The new coil wire did not want to properly attach. The black coil is the original 6v coil.

The issue was solved by closing up the coil wire terminal so that it would connect to the stud and stay attached. Right terminal is stock, left one is closed up.

The factory routed the plug wires beneath the coil mount. there are tubes under the mount for the wires to run through. I labeled the wires temporarily at this point. You have to feed the wires through the coil mount before you put the ends on. Remember to leave a bit of slack when you cut to length, so you can move the distributor is needed.

In the next picture you notice that the wires are separated. this keeps the wires neat and helps prevent crossfire.

Here we see the upper wire routing. I have the permanent labels attached here and you see the spacers.

The distributor ends all done, with permanent labels attached.

Up until now we have been dry fitting the wires. Now that we've cut them to fit and attached all the ends we need to put some dielectric grease inside the boots, sockets and on the plug tips