What is minimum electrical required to start my car?

67Dart273 said
OK LISTEN UP

74 's had the "deadly" "seat belt interlock." Look around under the hood for a box that resembles a horn relay that has a RED RESET button. Try resetting that and see if the key cranks it.

NOTICE I see the box in the photo, the red reset is down there below your ignition box. To bypass that permanently, find the two large yellow wires going to it, and splice them together

Later you will want to bypass it, but DON'T WORRY about it for now

You likely aware that this is your starter relay. If the car won't crank with the key, make certain the transmission is not in gear, and short the two large exposed terminals with a screwdriver, it should crank right over

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Did you get a multimeter or test lamp? See the terminals on the ballast towards the left, the upper and lower are jumpered together. This is the power TO the resistor/ ignition FROM the ignition switch. Those two terminals should have "same as battery" when the key is in the "run" position. IF THEY DO NOT jumper them to a battery source, jumper the starter relay and see if you have spark out of the coil

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ok... i "*** U ME D" since I cranked on the car ignition for a few days, then removed the battery and reinstalled battery and the key did not crank the car - it wasn't the seat belt interlock "because it worked for a few days in a row and ONLY removed and then reinstalled battery" that wasn't the problem -----

Jumpered across it with aligator clips - waaalaaa it cranks from the key.... still no fire but at least it turns over by the key... back to where I was before battery removed n put back... still no fire...

But I did do this.... <with the key OFF>
I hooked multimeter from (hot on battery) - (to the top left condenser) then (bottom left of condenser) then (top right condenser) then (bottom right condenser) ---- every time the reading said 12.46 volts
THEN
<with key ON/RUN POSITION>
ALL 4 positions registered 1.76 volts
<with key START>
top left cond - 4.38....top right 1.35 .... bottom left and bottom right - 4.57

didn't hook 12v from battery directly cause it might blow something if I did with these readings
can you tell from these reading might might be the problem???