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Mopar Tim said:
Dave and any one else, come here and we can go out in my boat, who knows what we can catch...Can go about 500 miles on a tank of gas....
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As much as I like boating and fishing. Ain't no way I'm gonna leave sight of shore.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
Just spent 2 hours reading thru all those links and printing out the manual Mattax posted.


I still have one giant question. The headlights for example have two and three wires going into the plugs for them. But the wiring diagram for the polara that I can find shows just one. My universal kit has just one as well how the heck does one get both lights on with just one wire
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If high/low(2 headlights) they need 3 wires. if separate high and low (4 headlights) they get 2 wires each. I was just skimming the conversation, but didn't someone say some of the drawings only show the + side?
 
So dinner tonight was two towns away.
Restaurant 101-good,fast,cheap-pick two.
This place breaks that rule,100% of the time.
Been eating there a couple times a year for the last 20 years.
Never ever disappointed. By the food or the service.
Last year they built a food truck
And run it off their home property on the main drag through town.
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Wienerschnitzel. Yum!
 
Another place it can get confusing is if the switching is done on the neg side and hot is constant...
 
Tooljunkie said:
So dinner tonight was two towns away.
Restaurant 101-good,fast,cheap-pick two.
This place breaks that rule,100% of the time.
Been eating there a couple times a year for the last 20 years.
Never ever disappointed. By the food or the service.
Last year they built a food truck
And run it off their home property on the main drag through town. View attachment 1715214566Wienerschnitzel. Yum!
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Mmmm, looks good. But, you shouldn't say wiener in front of Chris. LOL
 
All the fish are filleted and the fishing gear stowed for the trip home tomorrow.

It’s been a great 2 weeks. 66 snapper blue fish caught and 3 dozen keeper crabs.

I really needed this break.
 
Ddaddy said:
All the fish are filleted and the fishing gear stowed for the trip home tomorrow.

It’s been a great 2 weeks. 66 snapper blue fish caught and 3 dozen keeper crabs.

I really needed this break.
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Im thinking you enjoyed yourself. Happy for ya,man. And sorry it has to end.
 
The other thing that was really nice about this trip was that we were able to bring the dog. He thinks we live here now and will lose his mind when we go back to Home tomorrow!

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Ahahaha! Was just about ready to call it a night when I heard loud splashing out in the canal. The neighbor on the other side of the canal left his bait bucket in the water next to his boat and the otter was raiding it.

I lit him up with my flashlight and he was doing the same trick over there that he did to me.

Life goes on, here on the Island...
 
Mopar Tim said:
You want to do it right? Pull the engine, Transmission, the seats, the carper, the dash, replace the three harnesses, then plug in everything, like the factory did. The only way to do it the correct way. Anything else is just a hack job...IMO.
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If you wire it yourself, it's better to leave the engine in so you know where your wiring "targets" are at...
 
Mattax said:
Vizard flow tested a bunch of mufflers back in the 70s - published the results a few places including Performance with Economy.
Glasspacks generally flow much better going with the louvers than into them.
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Yes, the die that punches the holes "pushes" the holes outward... There is no burr from the punch side as there is from the side that bends/deforms when the punch goes through... Therefore less resistance to flow when you flow in the direction that the punch goes... No burr to overcome/go around...

When you make tooling for a part, you need to consider the draw of the punch...
 
Mattax said:
Vizard flow tested a bunch of mufflers back in the 70s - published the results a few places including Performance with Economy.
Glasspacks generally flow much better going with the louvers than into them.
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toolmanmike said:
That's because they are a straight through tube. :rofl:
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They may flow the best, but they are very loud...

Turbo mufflers are a nice compromise with quietness and flow....
 
Mattax said:
Chris - what you need to do is get a sheet of plywood, some good open barrel crimpers, and more than enough terminals, and connectors only as needed for the wires.
Lay out the original on one side of the board, and the generic one on the other. Then make the generic one look like the original. It can be a family project, like a jigsaw puzzle.

There's some good posts in the electrical forum about how to do this, how to make the crimps, etc.
Hardest part for you will be if there is a need for some insulation color that's not common. If there's no marine supply stores near you, you may have to order from a specialty company to avoid bying 250' spool.
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If you can't find the right color wire, you can always rattle can spray paint it...

I use markers to make the stripe on the wires with 'tracer' wires...

NAPA around here used to have a nice selection of different color wires and terminals, but got rid of their electrical stand a few years back...

Menards or other home improvement stores may carry some colors of wire and will be the cheapest for the bigger rolls... If you are going to do a complete wire job, it's best to stock up on the different colors that you will need...
 
toolmanmike said:
Or put in a voltmeter.
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Volts won't tell you how much current you are using, just if you have the proper voltage...

An ammeter will tell you if you are discharging from the battery or charging from the alternator easier...

I like having both ammeter and volt meter.... :D
 
Mattax said:
As much as I appreciate the ammeter, I don't know why they seem to have been preferred over voltmeters well into the 70s. Even the aftermarket underdash gage sets came usually came with ammeters, not voltmeters. In fact I hav etwo of those in a box in the garage. Maybe accurate voltmeters in that range were more expensive??
Sure would have been easier for Joe average to wire in a voltmeter than a ammeter to his Chevy Nova. (I added a mechanical oil pressure gage to mine)
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toolmanmike said:
Could be. Voltmeters aren't built much different. It's not like the manufacturers had to wait for the computer before they figured out how to make one.
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An ammeter has to have as minimal resistance as possible - target is zero resistance, where voltmeters have infinite resistance...
 
ZMan67S said:
As I stood looking at meters the other day at Harbor Freight I wondered which one I should get.
I've never owned one, but feel the more I do things on the cars I need one.
At least my mechanic neighbor wouldn't have to walk back to his house to get his.
Any recommendations....what it should have on it??
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When picking gauges, you want the range that you expect to be in the middle of the gauge/meter sweep... The most accurate readings are in the 1/4 - 3/4 range, the ends are not as accurate... Dr. Kordyban taught us that in our class - always get a gauge that reads in the middle of the range and not at the ends...

Example: If you are measuring 12 volts, you would want the range of the meter/gauge to be 24 to 25 volts max... That way the normal reading will be in middle of the gauge...

From 0 - 1/4 and from 3/4 - full are where it's not as accurate and harder to read... It's easier to read the gauge when it's in middle...

Also when you are getting the triple gauge set for the car, I like 270° of sweep on the oil pressure and temperature gauges... I can put up with 90° sweep on a volt gauge as it doesn't fluctuate much when running...
 
Mattax said:
My favorite analog for kicking around in the tool box is a mid 80s Radio shack multi-meter.
For digital, so far I've been pretty happy Innova 3340
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I have the Radio Shack analog multi meter also... Love it for all but measuring resistance, it seems the newer digital meters are more accurate and repeatable for measuring resistance/ohms...
 
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