electronic ignition swap on a 64 Valiant..........CANT GET TO RUN.....HELP
Starter relay: What they might be referring to is the very late ones also used in Jeeps. You do NOT have one of those. You should NOT tap into the "start" (yellow) at the start relay. The late / Jeep ones had a separate bypass contact which the old ones don't have. In all the cars I've worked on, the bypass circuit (brown wire to coil +) is right in the ignition switch.
This is what I call a "Jeep" relay
Electrically (not appearance) it is exactly like yours except it has an extra contact and terminal used for the "bypass" circuit.
HERE is what happens in an older Mopar if you use the yellow "start" wire for the bypass circuit:
It will work just "fine" except when the transmission is in park or neutral. That will ground one end of the start relay, causing a LOAD on the ignition circuit. This causes power from the ballast resistor to backfeed /bleed down through the starter relay to ground. In some cases, it might even be enough to engage the starter!!
Starter relay: What they might be referring to is the very late ones also used in Jeeps. You do NOT have one of those. You should NOT tap into the "start" (yellow) at the start relay. The late / Jeep ones had a separate bypass contact which the old ones don't have. In all the cars I've worked on, the bypass circuit (brown wire to coil +) is right in the ignition switch.
This is what I call a "Jeep" relay
Electrically (not appearance) it is exactly like yours except it has an extra contact and terminal used for the "bypass" circuit.
HERE is what happens in an older Mopar if you use the yellow "start" wire for the bypass circuit:
It will work just "fine" except when the transmission is in park or neutral. That will ground one end of the start relay, causing a LOAD on the ignition circuit. This causes power from the ballast resistor to backfeed /bleed down through the starter relay to ground. In some cases, it might even be enough to engage the starter!!