no it does not look like the photo. It is attached to the side of the coil and it is round and cylinder shaped.

I have a wire coming in from the dash to the positve connection on the coil and then the neg connection goes to the distributor.

I have disconnected the fuel line and I am just pouring aliitle gas in the carb. I did change the oil, but I did not spary wd40 in the spark plugs.

any other advice would be great. thanks for the response.