1970 Duster project in Sweden

360DartGT66 said

The entire charging current (30-50 amps?) goes through the bulkhead connector, in and out. Any oxide in those connectors and the whole thing melts. Standard fault on the earlier models. They fixed this sometime around 1970, I believe, maybe earlier.

If you bypass it, you only measure a voltage and hardly any current passes thru, keeping the bulkhead connector from destroying itself.

If you want pictures of a molten connector, I think I have some in my thread. They're attachments now, though. I need to fix that ...

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Mid to late 70s high output alternators police/taxi package, at the factory they bypassed the red and black through the fire wall directly with rubber grommets to prevent wire chafing and shorting. Their electrical engineers must have had a thing for ammeters i guess. Would have been simpler to use a volt gage in the dash, and run alt output straight from alt to batt. This was a mopar shortcoming. Any old timer i have ever talked to said mopar electrical systems always gave em fits. Even my father in law who was a mechanic himself said he had a 68 charger around 1972. Said he loved the look and the way it drove but the electrical sucked. He sold it after only having it 6 months. Now i am showing him where all the little devils in mopar electrical systems are or were with my cuda.