66 barracuda ignition problem

brkooduh66 said
Its cool alot of good theorys came up here, and i condsidered all of them. I was dead set on the fusible link, i even bought a new one. However, the actual failure (this time) was not listed in this post. As i mentioned the last "lost of power" was wiht the failed/burned out ammeter. when i repaired that i installed a single stud post http://images1.mcmaster.com/Contents/gfx/large/9365t5p1-d01bl.png?ver=14888902
stacked the three wires on it and dah-duh ammeter by-passed. it worked and i would have gotten away with it, but one of the ring lug for the supply power wire developed some invisible barrier that magically impeded the flow of electrons to the other two lugs. cut them off, cripped on new ones. interesting

Actually it WAS mentioned.

Here read this article on the hows and whys of what happens with these:

http://www.madelectrical.com/electricaltech/amp-gauges.shtml

For those of us who've finally decided to convert to voltmeters, a good thread here, read through all three pages, as it covers different styles of clusters

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=119480&highlight=ammeter+conversion

And some of us have gone to fuse/ relay boxes under the hood. Mine is out of an old Voyager, and has relays and fuses for hi/ lo beam, pump, EFI, ignition, security, and left over spots..It's mounted on the left fender apron. There are manufactured new ones from people like Bussmann