73 Duster Electrical Issue

73 Duster Electrical Issue

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67Dart273 said
So far as your ignition. Regardless of the factory wiring there is two wires in the original car involved. IGN1 "run" is often dark blue. IGN2, ballast bypass, is often brown. These come from the ignition switch, through the bulkhead, out into the engine bay. The whole deal is, IGN1 "run" GOES DEAD during cranking. So you would have no spark!!!

But IGN2 originally was meant to bypass the coil resistor, and THAT is what gives you ignition power in cranking. So to run your add-on ignition, you must JUMPER IGN1 and 2 together and hook them up where the "key" is in the MSD diagram.

You must ALSO leave the alternator field and VR power in the mix, which is branched off of the "run" wire originally. Make sure you don't chop things all up and disable it---won't charge

Thanks again but as I said electrical stumps me. I am still hung up on two things, the starter relay and the flag push on terminals. I did try to put a jumper fro the blue to the brown wire of the ballast resistor and nothing except the wire got hot. Here is a couple of pics of my set up. Is the first two the starter relay? On the ballast I do have a dark blue and a brown which I jumpered together. On the starter relay i don't understand what you are saying about the NSS as far as jumping it. Sorry to be so stupid

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