"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
07/17/2018 at 21:22 • Filed to: None
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"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
07/17/2018 at 21:22 • Filed to: None | 7
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My friend has had this Ranchero for 3 years. 289, t5, racing buckets etc. It’s pretty sweet. But the wiring is a bit avant garde. an ez-wire fuse panel mated to the original harness, many things daisy-chained together and spliced/lengthened, which defeats the purpose of “painless” type wiring kits.
It starts and runs fine, but had no headlights/dashlights and if you stepped on the brakes you lost yer blinkers and 4 ways. If main power was attached to the headlight switch, the headlights worked but killed brakes and tails. The car is equipped with a factory 4 way flasher switch which works but experiences a voltage drop under certain conditions, might be an intermittent pinch or a connection that works fine once it’s warm from resistance. I can’t provide an answer adhering to the scientific method (I like to know what the actual problem is, not just make it go away) So I’m just going to declare it “one of those things”. -or- “ I don’t know the scientific explaination, but I fixed on it till it was fixed” . He’s putting the gau ge cluster back in as we speak, no phone calls yet.
Also you can’t see it but I’m sporting a “Skinner’s old Fashioned Steamed Hams” T-shirt, which is pretty cool too. Still need to make the 4 ways work at the same time as everything else, but I suspect the aftermarket fuse box may be geared to updating an old car without 4 ways and it doesn’t jive with the factory wired column. Rambling R over pro bably knows though.
Die-Trying
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
07/18/2018 at 01:15 |
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had some of that fun intermittent fuse burning with my truck..... was a pain to track down. i ended up making a short indicator/ temp fuse...... it was two spade connectors to jam on either side of the fuse, and a real long section of speaker wire to run to the area i was monkeying with. it had a car headlight bulb, and one of those early 80s seatbelt warning buzzers hooked to the two wires. when whatever was on the circuit was working propperly the headlight would give off a real gentle red off the bulb filament, and the buzzer was silent. as soon as you shorted the wire you were working with. the lightbulb went into full shine , and the buzzer would go to buzzing.......
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
07/18/2018 at 04:21 |
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keep trying to track it down
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Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> pip bip - choose Corrour
07/18/2018 at 10:55 |
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It’s 50 an hour for project car rescue. (a real job in the real world, which I make some of my living doing) . I t adds up. Got to weigh 4 hours troubleshoot vs 70+ hours to replace a 1960's wiring harness. (build the harness). It’s the philosophical connundrum in which I live. I’ve wasted mt life playing with old cars (A good life) and I’ve learned that the best 50+ year old car is a used Corrolla minus 40 years.)