Is there a way to bench test a dizzy module of the two wires to coil variety found in our EA81 and EA82 ?

The factory manuals do not cover the topic.

 

I'm thinking a spare coil, complete dizzy with cap, leads and spark plugs on a common grounded point, hook up a battery to the whole thing and spin dizzy cog by hand is the long way to do it ....

 

Can we hook the two wires up, select something on a DMM and get a result ?

Power it up like normal and a test light on coil - should flash if the module is OK.

 

I think you can use the electromagnetic field from the tip of a soldering iron to stimulate the pick-up coil type ones.

I have not tried that yet.

 

Diode test function of your multimeter will show open or shorted semiconducter junctions between the module connections 99% of the time for bad ones.Much simpler.