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About twice a summer, I have a ground issue with my brake lights. I have to remove the tail lights on my 71 Scamp, twist the bulb socket in the housing and reinstall the light. This freshens up the metal and creates a good ground again and everything works great for awhile. Just removing and...

My engine originally had A/C which I removed and found some non A/C brackets from a member. I've always mounted my Alternator like in the picture. Is it correct or should the Alternator be on the other side of the bracket?

Im running the Speedhut gauges and its adjustable for your float level. You set the full tank, and empty tank and the gauge knows those two settings and adjusts accordingly. Im still curious though if the sending unit should be grounded like when using he original gauge cluster? If it matters...

I have a Powermaster XS model 9513 starter, way out of warranty. Went to start the car and it just clicked. I thought my battery was dead so I charged it but the starter still just clicks and will not engage. Has anyone ever repaired one of these starters?

So I've been stumped for the past couple weekends trying to figure out why my map and glove box light do not turn on with out my head/park lights being on.. This is on my 71 Scamp. First off I do not have stock wiring. I installed the EZ Wiring kit last winter. I used the stock schematic to...

Hi guys, I have a strange issue going on. I recently rewired my car with a EZ Wiring 21 circuit kit. I've also done a few upgrades such as headlight relays, and added HEI ignition. I've run all my grounds to 3 locations on the car. So as Im driving my car, when I got to WOT, and put a huge...

Hi guys, Sorry this is B-body stuff but Im not a member on FBBO. I just got a huge bin full of factory wiring harnesses. Most of them are 68-69 B-body, but Im trying to find out if there is a website that I can cross reference them thru just to verify. I have all the P/N's that are on the tags...

So I recall something about using ground straps instead of ground cables. Can someone enlighten me as to why the straps are better to use instead of a large gauge cable (which I am currently using).

Hello Gents!!!! My rewire job went great for my car. Thank you for those of you that helped with my couple posts on a few questions. Although I have two small issues that Im stumped on. Im not sure if its all because of the headlight switch or two separate things. So here are the issues. 1st...

Im almost done with wiring my car and Im stuck on the headlight switch to start. As I look at my service manual, I think I have all but one termination point figured out. I just want to tell you what I plan on terminating to what points. Terminal H-Goes down to the dimmer switch on the floor to...

I've searched the net and searched my manuals and cant find a good clear answer. On my 71 scamp. I am trying to wire up the headlight plugs, I have a Red wire, Violet wire and Black wire. Im not sure which wire is the high beam and which is the low beam. Or as your looking at the back of the...

2 part question here. So Im rewiring my car and I have multiple things (electric fan relays, headlight relays, etc...) wired under the hood, under the battery tray. The 3 relays all need to run to a 12v power source. I didnt want to run them all to the starter relay stud, just because I will...

I have some questions for the people that have installed a EZ Wire Harness. Im unclear of what some of the wires do and how you wired certain parts. So with that being said let me start. I'll list them out with the wire # and how its labeled then my question #45 Tachometer, is that the same as...

How many here use a wrap to keep the heat away from there starter. I put one on, but Im worried that the if the main battery post rubs thru and contacts the foil it could cause a fire or short out... Or am I thinking to much?

Ok this is a bit different. Im having a hard time swallowing the fact that a higher output alternator is $150 plus. So Im wondering if you can take a stock alternator and upgrade it to a higher amperage yourself? Are parts available to do this, etc....???

I need help on sizing the battery cable. Im not mounting it in the trunk but keeping it under the hood. I have the option for a 4ga. or a 2ga. wire. Is there any benefit to running the 2ga, or is it just wasting money.

Hi guys, Im gathering parts for a rewire job on my car and I want to buy some connectors for the steering column and other areas. My worry is that the amp rating on the connectors. I have no idea how many amps are going to the ignition switch when you turn the key to start the car and I want to...

Is there a way to determine if you have a older (80's) or newer orange box? Part number change etc????

So I have been reading a bunch of posts about wiring harnesses. It seems that a favorite are Ron Francis and American Autowire. There are also a bunch more out there such as Painless and Ezwire etc.. Myself I have used a Painless harness and I thought it was very well made and worked great...

Im wanting to buy a new dizzy for my 71 Scamp with a 360. The one that is in there is the original. I would just like to update it but not entirely sure of what dizzy to get. I dont necessarily want a stock reman but pretty sure I dont need a pro billet style either. Looking for suggestions on...

Ok guys bare with me on this. A few of you on here have been helping me try to figure out what my car is doing. First it was timing it, then I found out that I had a bad cylinder so I had the engine shop take care of that. I just got it back from them. Well it still doesnt want to go anywhere...

My engine only has 300 miles on it from the rebuild. I pulled the plugs to swap them to something different. This was #6 Cylinder on my 360. What is causing this? I shined a light into the plug hole and the entire piston is carboned. I know I have a questionable set of plug wires on the car...

Ok, I checked both door switches and the map light switch. I can not get my interior lights to shut off. Is there another switch that I should be checking somewhere? I looked at the wiring schematic but it doesnt look like Im missing anything. Any ideas what may be causing this? For now I just...

So, Im planning on future upgrades to my car. I see a lot of people that run MSD boxes and Im wondering what the pro's or perhaps con's might be. If I were to add one of these boxes I would also want to swap in the distributor and upgrade the wiring and coil. My car is currently a 360 with...

hi guys trying to figure out a major problem here. Broke in the car 2 weeks ago car ran great and started fine today I want to go start it to move it nothing at the key will not even crank. It would not even fire by jumping the start relay. Replace the ignition control module it fired but was...

Ok so Im a bit confused on my flasher situation. I have 3 things that look like flashers to me. 1 is tucked up by the fuse box on the drivers side and is identical to the one that is mounted in a clip next to the ash tray. I believe both of these are flashers correct? Sorry its fuzzy but its...

I started inspecting my harness before reinstalling it into my 71 Scamp and so much of it is complete junk. The main plug at the fire wall is melted at the fuseable link wire and a lot of the wiring is cracked with bare spots all over.. I planned on rewiring it next year after I got some more...

Wondering if there is a place to buy these electrical connectors and the barrel connectors that are inside of them. The first pic has 2 different sizes. Sorry hard to tell from the pic. All 3 are from steering columns.

Im going to be buying some gauges and have been following the gauge/cluster threads on here. Im just curious if anyone has any codes for Speedhut, Summit, or anyone else that sells gauges. Just trying to save some money!

Im swapping out my column in my 71 scamp and it currently has the ignition on the column. The new column is out of a 68 cuda no ignition on column. I was debating about putting in push button ignition but not sure how to do that since I will no longer have the auxillary to power the radio and...