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Originally Posted by cosmo meantit
Ron,
Saw the wiring pic. 
Could you give us a rundown on what you did?
(I understand if you need some stranger danger recovery time first...lol) |
Well Skip back at Jakes when we were winching the car I saw the bottom pic. The 4 ga wire to the 12000lbs winch that was twisted together and almost melting on the muffler. So disconnecting the wire at the battery and a zip tie got us back on the road.
At Rons I took a look at the overall underhood wring. Holy **** the top photo is the negative coil lead. The 14 ga + coil lead from the ignition was spliced into a 10ga hot wire to the Duraspark box. (Ford put electronic ignition on these back in the day = no points).
Of course then they ran the whole "custom" wire harness across top of the PS pump just waiting to commit suicide on the fan belt.
On the firewall the 10 GA wire for the Duraspark is staring us in the face. Ron gets the voltmeter up and it's hot with the key on. Off to the parts store to get filters and such so we figure a bullet connector and we are in bussiness.
Fast forward a lunch at Grog house, 3 hrs and a few beerrs later and we are back to wire the truck.
Luckily we double check if the lead is always hot or just keyed hot. F@##k. Always hot. No problem Ron busts out his Copper retirement stash and has a relay in hand.
While he is soderring the leads I find a green wire laying on teh front shock. Oh the tac lead. A quick end connector and the tac is hoked up. We get everything buttoned up. ROn says " i don't know if this relay is set for off without power or on" Hey we have a 50/50 shot. FIre in the hole......
Now two blind old guys in the dark are swapping pins in the relay. Success. We are back on the road.
Well there was the carb thing but ............ That story if for later.
Gotta go Skip. Need to see the Smithsonian.
