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  1. Mattax

    What do I need and what do I don’t!

    1975 Standard main power and key switch feed circuit is a little different than other years. From the alternator power has two paths into the passenger compartment because the key switch feed (wire J1) has been spliced into R6 on the engine side of the firewall. Otherwise its...
  2. Mattax

    What do I need and what do I don’t!

    So some of the this may be self-inflicted? The '75 A-body splits the power on the engine compartment side, So its not like earlier models. If you didn't know that then this where you need to begin. Study the power feeds so you know where they go. The power circuit must be kept. Follow the...
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Keeping it real. I'm from NJ too. North Jersey. We tell it as it is. On the other side of Madison I was going to buy a coffee and some fries at the McD's I stopped at to use the head. I figure its only fair to throw 'em some business for using the restroom. There's no fricken cashier! 5...
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    ‘68 Dart, One tail light not working.

    Do you have the shop manual and parts books? Pretty sure www.mymopar.com has both for '68. I have paper original and CD for 68 so haven't looked but pretty sure mymopar has them. Yellow insulation was used for dome light return, map light, etc. Orange was typically used for instrument...
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Are the tires on it so bad they can't be used for another 1000 miles?
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    I guess so. What I carry in my pack is a trauma bandage. I also have a 1970s era small military first aid kit - but that's really not what I'd like to turn to unless that's the only choice. At work we have a nice kit with the trauma banadages in it. Mandatory to have on hand when running...
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Glad that has been going OK. Lot of help I have been. Not.
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    I think my neighbor gets something (a powder?) at the local CVS Pharmacy.
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Use in wound dressings is newer than I thought too. 1990s https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1016/j.wem.2016.12.005
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    This guy is pretty decent and I really hate hospitals.
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Maybe thats not it. That's for disinfecting. Well thats why I'm not a doctor
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Hey. Gives yo somehting to look forward too. reminds me I'm prolly due for an annual. and all the other stuff I ignored or forgot about
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    here it is. The stuff was called Sulfanilamide https://www.med-dept.com/articles/history-development-of-the-carlisle-bandage/
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    That sucks. My neighbor is in a similar boat with the thinners. Get some of the coagulant stuff that comes on trauma bandages. I think corn starch works too but since before WW2 there has been some advances on the Carlisle Banadage details.
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    That or a festival or show
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    Searching for 12v switched power after ditching ballast and installing aftermarket electronic ignition

    I read it the same way. Key in any position otehr than start and J3 is isolated from the other relay terminals. Key in start, power from ignition switch through the safety switch (S2 to S4) causes the contacts to connect the battery feed to the J3 (lower contact). The upper contacts send power...
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    Searching for 12v switched power after ditching ballast and installing aftermarket electronic ignition

    Are you using a scanner? Sometimes setting for grayscale works better. Alternatively, if you make it a pdf file, althoug it won't post as an image people can open it and read it at full size.
  18. Mattax

    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    I ran into a doorway a couple weeks ago. I know it wasn't a dumb thing to do because it smarted so much.
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Remember, we were maybe 5 miles as the crow flies from that place. My program manager thought it was a great idea to show that movie Halloween after pumpkin carvin' A little payback as they say. (Not to me, I was just witness)
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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

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    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Dave made quite a few illustrations like that on his computer. https://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/threads/stop-in-for-a-cup-of-coffee.299763/post-1972072296 https://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/threads/stop-in-for-a-cup-of-coffee.299763/post-1972309806...
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    Good Initial Timing and Too much Total Timing Problem. Seeking guidance to minimize total timing. 1969 Swinger 340 4 Gear

    Just noticed you wrote you have an Accel distributor. I have no idea what type of advance mechanism is in it. You'll have to post some pictures, and more than befoer you will have to measure and plot the timing to know what the advance curve looks like.
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    Good Initial Timing and Too much Total Timing Problem. Seeking guidance to minimize total timing. 1969 Swinger 340 4 Gear

    Under hard acceleration, it could be excess HC (unburned fuel) and/or NOx. An observer may be able to tell you based on color and smell. Look at the spark plug porcelain for small specks that might be aluminum. That would indicate detonation under hevy load even if you didn't hear the rattle...
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    Good Initial Timing and Too much Total Timing Problem. Seeking guidance to minimize total timing. 1969 Swinger 340 4 Gear

    ...By 1800 rpm the timing is essentially the same in both. Your 340 probably has a distributor advance intended for initial timing of TDC or 5* but we don't know (unless you have the original distributor). So you need to measure and plot the timing from as low of rpm as it will run, to at least...
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    Good Initial Timing and Too much Total Timing Problem. Seeking guidance to minimize total timing. 1969 Swinger 340 4 Gear

    ...With vacuum advance connected 57* at 3000 rpm is on the high side but in the ballpark . Factory would be closer to 50* Your '69 4 speed was originally setup to reduce emissions at idle and while coasting. It came with a distributor setup with a long and fast primary advance curve to...
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    Searching for 12v switched power after ditching ballast and installing aftermarket electronic ignition

    I don't really understand what you mean with J2 and J3 going to a relay. Draw a diagram. Not sure why you need a fuse block for the ignition on wire, or a tach. CD deck I would power from the auxilery buss if there is room in the OEM fusebox. Alternately have it trigger a better connection...
  27. Mattax

    Stop in for a cup of coffee

    Feel for you. At least you're an air conditioned taxi. Two cars closed three lanes of traffic coming off the freeway coming into Madison last Wed. I knew it wasn't normal when folks opened their doors to get a look at what was going on. The exit was open so was lucky to be able to funnel...
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    Searching for 12v switched power after ditching ballast and installing aftermarket electronic ignition

    Depends on what is runningoff of that fuse block. The wire is 14 ga SAE, but when running goes though a bunch of connections and the start switch. Not sure but probably not fused - which is both good and bad. Less resistance is good. No protection for non-engine items on the engine circuit...
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    Searching for 12v switched power after ditching ballast and installing aftermarket electronic ignition

    Diagram here. J3 come sfrom starter relay https://www.forfmjbodiesonly.com/classicmopar/threads/ballast-resistor-wiring.11522/post-123771
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    Searching for 12v switched power after ditching ballast and installing aftermarket electronic ignition

    What I'm saying is that it sounds like the start wire from the igntion switch controls the relay When the relay closes, power goes from the battery feed on the relay to the starter solenoid and to the ignition start wire. Up through '76 for A-bodies, the relay does not have the BAL terminal...
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