Hot ballast resistor and smokin. no start at all when turning key

[bbmopars]

Goes the harness have plugs for your electronic ignition and electronic voltage regulator like it should

Ok so where does it go

You'll need to check with who built the harness since it's an aftermarket kit. This is either feeding 12v power to the field coil and voltage regulator, or it's taking power from the field coil and sending it somewhere, most likely the ignition coil. If it wasn't plugged in, though, it's not what made the wire smoke.

Anyway l could eliminate that,run the blue voltage regulator wire to alternator? The the blue wire just be a single wire instead of a double blue wire.

 

[bbmopars]

Goes the harness have plugs for your electronic ignition and electronic voltage regulator like it should

Goes the harness have plugs for your electronic ignition and electronic voltage regulator like it should

Never had it plug in that other terminal,don't where the blue wire goes you saw pics

 

[MadScientistMat]

Have you checked if that terminal is shorted to ground yet?

A single wire would just need whatever is on the other end to be fed 12v switched power from that side - typically a double wire on the voltage regulator instead. But your harness may already be doing this.

 

[bbmopars]

Have you checked if that terminal is shorted to ground yet?

A single wire would just need whatever is on the other end to be fed 12v switched power from that side - typically a double wire on the voltage regulator instead. But your harness may already be doing this.

Yah the terminal was loose on alternator,l tighten it back up. That would cause it short out and melt that wire? Ok l can eliminate the double blue wire and make it a single wire then?

 

[MadScientistMat]

Only if it touched the housing. Please unscrew the blue and green wire and measure the resistance from the terminal to ground with a multimeter to be sure the problem is gone

 

[bbmopars]

Only if it touched the housing. Please unscrew the blue and green wire and measure the resistance from the terminal to ground with a multimeter to be sure the problem is gone

Ok l see l will do that,l was able to move it back and fourth the terminal with my finger before l tighten it up.