small wiring mystery
I have 3 1970 Darts. The wiring is pretty stock on all of them. I've been replacing all the harnesses on #3 and wanted to add the subharness for an interior light package while I was doing it. As a reference, I pulled down some of the under dash wiring from #2 to see just how it was put together (#2 only as 70,000 miles on it and has an original unmolested dash wiring harness), In doing so I came across the odd little harness shown here:
It plugs ino the place where the turn signal flasher usually just plugs right into the harness and its purpose is to add an inline 14 amp fuse. I have never seen this and it does not exist on any one the other Darts or on two reference harnesses that I have from other 70 Darts. The flasher is a whopper and it says the following right on the flasher:
I can't figure out what the purpose of this arrangement might be, but it is obviously factory, down to the paper tag on the fuse holder:
I made a needed repair (one of the fuse holder wires broke off right where it went into the fuse holder) and everything works fine now. The only thing different about the turn signals on #2 - the one with the added fuse, is that it has fender mounted turn signal indicators, but when I look at the bitty bulbs in them, I think that that can't add much of a draw. This little harness does not show in any of the FSM schematics. Anybody have any idea why this is made this way? Why would I need this HEAVY DUTY!!! flasher. If I wanted to add fender mounted turn signal indicators on one of the other darts should I add a fuse and heavy duty flasher?
I have 3 1970 Darts. The wiring is pretty stock on all of them. I've been replacing all the harnesses on #3 and wanted to add the subharness for an interior light package while I was doing it. As a reference, I pulled down some of the under dash wiring from #2 to see just how it was put together (#2 only as 70,000 miles on it and has an original unmolested dash wiring harness), In doing so I came across the odd little harness shown here:
It plugs ino the place where the turn signal flasher usually just plugs right into the harness and its purpose is to add an inline 14 amp fuse. I have never seen this and it does not exist on any one the other Darts or on two reference harnesses that I have from other 70 Darts. The flasher is a whopper and it says the following right on the flasher:
I can't figure out what the purpose of this arrangement might be, but it is obviously factory, down to the paper tag on the fuse holder:
I made a needed repair (one of the fuse holder wires broke off right where it went into the fuse holder) and everything works fine now. The only thing different about the turn signals on #2 - the one with the added fuse, is that it has fender mounted turn signal indicators, but when I look at the bitty bulbs in them, I think that that can't add much of a draw. This little harness does not show in any of the FSM schematics. Anybody have any idea why this is made this way? Why would I need this HEAVY DUTY!!! flasher. If I wanted to add fender mounted turn signal indicators on one of the other darts should I add a fuse and heavy duty flasher?
