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The 'how the car goes' point is a good one. This car was parked in a storage container for 31 years until last spring when it was sold to the previous owner. I later purchased it and have been plugging (no pun this time) away at it since. When it goes to the shop to have the tank swapped and...

Some good food for thought, thank you. I always thought pulling the plugs on occasion was a good thing so those 'lifetime' plugs made me wonder. Always good to see if the plug is wet, oily, brown & dry, burnt or damaged electrode etc. However, those issued you mentioned of time, flexibility and...

I realize it's probably a question with no simple answer, but I'm putting together a tune up kit for my 66 Imp, 440 and wondered what the consensus is on a good plug to use. Haven't bought plugs for a car in years, maybe decades now and I think those might've been NGK? The last thing I put...

Just took a look at the digital manual I have on the laptop and sure enough - it appears there is no separation between the courtesy and instrument lights - just power to the console plug. In looking at the schematic, M1B is the separate fuse, while the M1A return seems to also go through fuse E...

Thanks for the tips. I need to go back to the manual and have another look. I don't recall now if the side courtesy lights are on the same fuse, thought they were different but it sounds familiar that one feed runs the whole console. If so, then yep - the problem is elsewhere. Both the side...

Been tinkering a bit more on the '66 300 today, specifically the console shift area. Got the two dome/courtesy lights working a week or so back, opened the vacuum gauge to find a burned out #57 bulb but had no replacements. Got replacements this past week and installed one today. No light...

Been out working inside the car this morning while waiting for things outside to dry of a bit so I can have more quality time with the hood hinge from hell. Between the monsoon rains and overall heat and humidity the last few days, it's like a swamp out there. Was just running a quick check on...

The only way you're going to eliminate something is to disconnect the line. I'm not so sure about simply limiting it by adding another path. Without knowing all the numbers involved (voltage, amperage/current draw etc) it's difficult to say for sure, but it almost looks like your #10 wire was...

I've seen shorts in harnesses do this. Could be moisture inside a connector, too. Can't recall the vehicle now, but I remember something similar happening with a fuse box. Water was getting in from a leaky windshield gasket, fender rust, something. If other suggestions don't work out, I'd...

The reason folks probably seldom have issues is that it was considered routine maintenance for years that you changed the points, plugs, rotor, cap, condenser when you did a tune up. Condensers(capacitors) are like any other component in that they have a life expectancy and will eventually crap...

A number of things fit your description. Basically it sounds like a breakdown in your high voltage, through a bad component, loss to ground, or loss of contact due to a bad connection. The condenser might be breaking down under load. Might also be a crack somewhere in the distributor cap...