help! lights pulsate and wipers speed up
Would it be one bulkhead connector in particular? How does a bad connection cause that, please educate me. Thanks guys.
A bad connection can cause the regulator to not sense the voltage in the system correctly and constantly wrongly adjust the voltage.
Ground quality is HUGE with these cars. (Battery to body, and battery to engine are critical)
You would be amazed at how a few electrical and lighting system changes can make a huge difference.
These cars were not all that good in the wiring department when new, but there are things that can be done about a lot of it.
Getting as much of the amp load off the cabin wires helps a ton, and the ammeter bypass and headlight relay kit solves a lot of that.
Basically it uses your current switching and wiring only to activate the relays then the relays and new larger wire then handle the amps load for them.
A squareback alternator puts out a little more at idle.
The ammeter bypass is almost mandatory.
A relay kit for the headlights makes a huge difference
An electronic flasher unit (instead of the bi metal amp hog factory style.)
LED lighting for everything but the headlights helps a lot.
(example; normal brakelights use about 8 amps of power and my LED's use about one half of an amp)
That leaves about 7.5 amps free for other things, like wipers and headlights.
These four things even done one at a time but in this order will make a major difference for each one you do.
My lights don't dim at idle or when the brakes are on anymore, and my wipers and signals no longer slow down at idle due to these changes.
Pretty much everything that uses a lot of amps is off my cabin wiring and moved to relays.
The devices work better and your switches will last a lot longer due to the reduced load.
