Brad Kenyon
New Member
Hey folks, I'm totally new here (and to all things American and V8 but I feel like I'll be a master of them after all the work) ive been using this forum for months when searching for help to all my problems (of which there have been MANY!)
So thought I would register and say hi.
Also, I've got a bit of another problem. The car starts fine, everything electrical works (all the lights, the heater blower, the wipers, the horn etc etc)
But it's not been charging, so last night I took to checking all the wires and found a main black wire burnt right though at the firewall bulkhead connectors.
I then figured I would check through the FSM wiring diagrams and noticed there should be a fusible link between the + post on the starter relay and batt post on the horn relay. Currently mine just has a wire from battery + to starter relay + and a small wire coming off that to the horn relay. Nothing else!
Also, the stock ammeter has been bypassed (which I'm lead to believe is good!) But again there's no fusible links and it just uses constant hot wires to get it's power
(black off the main welded splice under the dash and red off a main red that runs from the starter relay through the bulkhead and splits off to a 30amp fuse behind the drivers kick panel and also the back of an aftermarket ammeter gauge)
Am I right in thinking that what I've got is a fire waiting to happen? If I disconnect the wires from the aftermarket ammeter gauge I lose ALL power to everything. No key, no lights, no nothing (I still have power in the engine bay from battery to starter relay but nothing inside)
Can someone show me the correct way to wire it all please with the ammeter bypass in place and correct fusible links so I can do it before starting the car and burning it to the ground
Thanks in advance ✌
So thought I would register and say hi.
Also, I've got a bit of another problem. The car starts fine, everything electrical works (all the lights, the heater blower, the wipers, the horn etc etc)
But it's not been charging, so last night I took to checking all the wires and found a main black wire burnt right though at the firewall bulkhead connectors.
I then figured I would check through the FSM wiring diagrams and noticed there should be a fusible link between the + post on the starter relay and batt post on the horn relay. Currently mine just has a wire from battery + to starter relay + and a small wire coming off that to the horn relay. Nothing else!
Also, the stock ammeter has been bypassed (which I'm lead to believe is good!) But again there's no fusible links and it just uses constant hot wires to get it's power
(black off the main welded splice under the dash and red off a main red that runs from the starter relay through the bulkhead and splits off to a 30amp fuse behind the drivers kick panel and also the back of an aftermarket ammeter gauge)
Am I right in thinking that what I've got is a fire waiting to happen? If I disconnect the wires from the aftermarket ammeter gauge I lose ALL power to everything. No key, no lights, no nothing (I still have power in the engine bay from battery to starter relay but nothing inside)
Can someone show me the correct way to wire it all please with the ammeter bypass in place and correct fusible links so I can do it before starting the car and burning it to the ground
Thanks in advance ✌