Those are not the stock plug wires...the stock ones have:
a spiraly spring sticking out of the end of orange colored insulated wire that is wrapped in braided metal line with a hex fitting on the ends that screws to the plug and to the distributor housings lid.
The setup you have is a solid core ignition wire, available at a small engine shop, like lawn mowers small...., it should have a little round piece added on the end with a point sticking up into the wire...can get at small engine shop for a buck...enough for the whole motor....with that piece on the end, you shove it down the hole and put on a civvy wire type boot. On the other end, you put on a spark plug end, from the small engine shop again, and use an autolite #275 or equivalent....with another civvy boot...the long ones for spark plugs, and now you have a cheap civvy wire conversion that lets you put on a standard timing light easily and lets you use common wires and plugs that are cheap as well compared to the roughly $10 each spark plugs for the military setup and a set of special wires that make it harder to time but are waterproof...
In short, the wires you have were made to replace the stock ones....they are not the stock ones cut up....
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