169dart4y said

Here are a couple of photo's I took including a relay that I eliminated when getting the car running because when I jumped the yellow wire direct to the starter siliniod it fired right up.
So I wired the brown off the harness to the left side of ballast, then off the same side ran a wire to the coil positive. The other side of the ballast I ran the blue with white strip to ballast and then a wire strait over to the alternator. I left all the wires that ran to the distributor and from the ecu to the ballast Light blue to the ecu from the ballast and black with yellow to the distributor. Just had to add a few wires
The car fired right up but I'm back to the same issue the ballast got red hot {burning hot, can not touch} in a minute. It never got hot when I had a slant six or without electronic ignition. I'm afraid it will roast the wires or worst a fire? Could a bad ballast do this or is something not quit right with the wiring?
The first picture is the main red to alternator tied to the blue with white strip and then the solid blue off ballast. The alternator wire and voltage reg,
The one of the relay was next to the ballast resistor where the yellow came off the harness and went to the relay then a brown wire tied it to the ballast resistor. I couldn't get my car running after I swapped the motor and ecu till I jumped the yellow strait to the starter relay and has been like that ever since? This could be my main problem why the ballast is getting hot. I'm thinking that the coil is getting 12 volts all the time instead of just when you in the start position? Not sure. I have a member who offered to look at his 69 to see the way it is wired with electronic ignition.

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