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Ok. Fair point! :D Never really thought about the quality of the electrical connection through the whole body of the car.

Lots of great info here. As for moving the battery to the back, there isn't weight to be saved here at all but weight distribution is a huge deal for any kind of driving. Moving a big chunk of weight from the front to the back is incredibly helpful. Many modern cars come this way including the...

Good point about those being smaller than actual battery terminals. That particular connector might not be a good option then. As for exposed terminals, that's how they came from the factory, no?

I see these advertised as "jump starting posts" but can they be used as a standard part of the electrical system of the car (and allow you to preserve the original battery cables)? This might add a bit of weight (a few extra feet of cable) and it might introduce some extra resistance since...

Very nice. I'm going to investigate doing something similar. Thanks for sharing! I wish you many safe stops.

Check your dome light...not working per chance? It's on the same fuse as the brake lights.

What year range shares this 1970 layout?

It’s a problem as old as these cars themselves! Some newer ignition controller boxes allow you to just slap a jumper wire in there and leave it but it seems like this deprives us of a genuine Mopar experience :D

Interesting that the heat sinks would make these weigh more than an incandescent sealed beam! One advantage of LEDs was supposed to be a greater portion of the input power being used to make light rather than heat, No? Even if they drew the same amperage, the LEDs should either be cooler...

Just a side-question to this discussion that may push me over the edge...is there any weight savings to be had by switching to LEDs? I know that headlights are the heaviest component in the car but stock ones are all glass and they're wayyy up front where they have the most (or nearly the most)...

I just found this thread and was hoping for an update- did your brake lights continue to work or did you find another cause? Yep. My '73 showed the same spontaneous symptoms on my way home late last night. Looking forward to another weekend of poking through half-century old wiring...so any of...

Thanks...that makes sense. Finding that circuit is the challenge. :)

Thanks, guys! Yep. That worked. Man, the instrument lights are dim; OEM and the new gauges too. Would this be related to the instrument panel voltage regulator? Sometimes they don't come on at all until I jiggle the knob. If so, is this hard to get to? I don't have the most agile fingers.

Extra connectors on the factory harness? Hmm...this might work for the voltage gauge perfectly. I would prefer to have the gauge lights on the switch with the dash lights so they would come in together rather than running all the time. Then again, my dash lights are increasingly unreliable so...

hey, guys. I’ve been poking around under the dash for a long time, trying to find a a good spot to splice into the dash light power for the new gauges and preferably doing so without disassembling the whole interior. Where do you guys suggest splicing in? Also, now that I’m running stuff off...

After having my exhaust bent/installed and getting some help with a few other things when getting the Dart back on the road, the owner of a local well respected restoration shop (and diehard Mopar guy) firmly suggested that I disconnect the battery any time that the car is going to sit. With...

Grabbed a pair of Phillips "direct replacement" bulbs off of Rock Auto. They go right into the sockets and promptly don't emit any light, making the "Light Emitting" portion of "light emitting diode" name a bit misleading. :D Has anyone tried these? It looks like they might require the...

Okaaayy...I’m getting the message that the stock wiring is not going to cut it. :) I thought the stock alternator (even if working properly) might not be up to the job but the fire hazard risk from over-amping thin gauge stock wires, isn’t one I hadn’t worried too much about. Thanks to all of...

I'm running an OEM/remanufactured alternator in my car currently (pun intended). I am about to set up a pair of shrouded electric fans in place of the stamped OEM fan. Unfortunately, I don't have the specs for the fans. I bought them along with my Champion radiator (matched by the rep who...

Reviving an old thread here... Does anyone make a Mopar specific kit that accommodates the stock connectors to the relay, etc? Also, it seems like the universal kits tend to include 16' of cable...is that enough? Our starters are on the driver's side which means crossing and adding 5' or so of...

B-Body cables are available everywhere...and cheap. What gives? What's different about the A-Body cables? IIRC, starter relay on the Bs is on the firewall where ours is on the fender, correct?

Restoration Performance offers a very inexpenve harness for B-Bodies. Would these be significantly longer? The battery tray can't be that much farther away, right?

Thanks. I may have to give them a call. They only list the negative cables. I will go this route if I have to but by the time I measure the cable gauges, lengths, identify and spec out the connectors, find appropriate heat shielding sheath, I could probably do it myself but my hope is that...

I just called my local Dodge parts department, asking if they might be able to get a positive battery cable for my '73. They're just not super friendly...I just don't know why it's so hard to find people who at least act like they want to help the customer. Anyway, being a common part that...

Now that the car is mysteriously running again, I swapped the new FBO ignition, controller back in and installed and the ballast resistor jumper. It's running identically to how it did with the Mopar Performance chrome box and the old MSD Blaster2 coil. I'm sure the rev limiter and the...

By the way, my Mopar Chrome box is "Made in Mexico." Does that help identify it as a "good one" or a "bad one?"

Well...I put the Mopar chrome box and ballast resistor back in. I picked up a new chassis-ground cable (the home made one I had looked marginal), grabbed a new cap and rotor just to be sure and got back to testing the voltage everywhere I could. I noticed that the lead going into the...

I don't know if I can find an MSD to borrow but if the ignition harness doesn't do the trick, that's next. The distributor doesn't seem to be the origin of the problem...I tried the old (and presumably still functioning) distributor from my 318 and got identical results.

My ignition box and coil came in from FBO...everything looks great. The indicator light on the box comes on sit it's getting input power. I added the jumper to the ballast resistor....and: Still no spark! So...I ordered a new ignition wiring harness. I suspect I will have replaced the...

I just spoke with the designer of the box or about 15 minutes...embarrassingly, I didn't catch his name! Very professional, very knowledgeable, very clear spoken. He was patient with my dumb questions too. :) The box sounds perfect...so I ordered one up! I will keep you guys posted...