Here's one for electrical gurus. Help.
Ok, I've downgraded back to 18 AWG on the firewall run of the blue "run" stuff.
And I put a new voltage regulator on because the old one was twitching at idle.
The new BWD voltage regulator is rock solid, albeit made in China.
To review:
No modifications were done prior to the wires going up in smoke.
Best guess is that's exactly what caused them to burn.
The factory wiring had 45 years of hard use on it.
Now,I don't think the weird timing issue after I put new wiring in was my fault exactly.
(I'm trying to find a reason to blame Dell but can't come up with one since he wasn't there.):poke:
Read on.
I'm real big about drawing new prints when wiring is modified. My current job drives me nuts. They move wires on relays to new contacts and just relabel the wires. In my previous avionics work engineering would mod the prints to match mods.
So, while I have not done dozens of cars, I have done this before on OTHER CARS by the numbers and got thrown a curve by Chrysler.
See?
Here's the harness I made up from scrap to replace the burned factory harness.
My harness changed the timing by what? 30 degrees?
Here's an unmolested factory harness from my pile of scrap.
View attachment 1715045238
And here's the factory original wiring that got melted which had been in the car 45 years. (unmodified)
I checked it.
Which I did NOT check before because making a new harness........because who knew?
Do my eyes deceive me? Am I losing my mind?
Ok, I've downgraded back to 18 AWG on the firewall run of the blue "run" stuff.
And I put a new voltage regulator on because the old one was twitching at idle.
The new BWD voltage regulator is rock solid, albeit made in China.
To review:
No modifications were done prior to the wires going up in smoke.
Best guess is that's exactly what caused them to burn.
The factory wiring had 45 years of hard use on it.
Now,I don't think the weird timing issue after I put new wiring in was my fault exactly.
(I'm trying to find a reason to blame Dell but can't come up with one since he wasn't there.):poke:
Read on.
I'm real big about drawing new prints when wiring is modified. My current job drives me nuts. They move wires on relays to new contacts and just relabel the wires. In my previous avionics work engineering would mod the prints to match mods.
So, while I have not done dozens of cars, I have done this before on OTHER CARS by the numbers and got thrown a curve by Chrysler.
See?
Here's the harness I made up from scrap to replace the burned factory harness.
My harness changed the timing by what? 30 degrees?
Here's an unmolested factory harness from my pile of scrap.
View attachment 1715045238
And here's the factory original wiring that got melted which had been in the car 45 years. (unmodified)
I checked it.
Which I did NOT check before because making a new harness........because who knew?
Do my eyes deceive me? Am I losing my mind?
