62 Valiant 200 / 170 cuin /6 - Odd smell

62 Valiant 200 / 170 cuin /6 - Odd smell - then dead battery

gsoco said
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THAT AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER...

OK. When you wrote "two wire" side of the ballast resistor, I though maybe something had changed.
Both sides have two wires - that's the most common way Chrysler wired them.