A-Body Round #2- My '76 Scamp restore...
Grill and lights back in. Lights are functional after half a day of troubleshooting. As part of this project I put in one of crackedback's headlight relay kits... Lights were acting dumb with things like the turn signal swith changing them between bright and dim, turn signal indicators on the dash would stay on any time the headlights were on and not flash, headlights were running when it should've only been marker Lights, etc... After a bunch of head scratching and cussing, i started to pull the stuff back out to just start over tracing every wire... but then once I unhooked a ground wire inside the engine bay, the headlights started working right... Hmmm.... Never experienced this before but I was using a bolt through the plastic tab on the relay to hold the relay to the radiator support panel. The back of that bolt in the engine bay was an ideal spot to put the ground ring from the wiring harness for the front marker light circuit, but apparently that is unacceptable. Ended up using that bolt for the ground ring and moved the relays about an inch away and Drilled a new hole for an individual bolt, and it works perfect. No idea why the relay seemed to care about the bolt running through its plastic tab having a ground wire attached. Weird. Nothing wrong with the headlight relay kit at all, but I sure was lost there for a bit.
Anyway, hood is also back on. Appears I've got some minor interference between the carb hat/boost sleeve and the hood stiffener- hopefully trimming a little of the hood stiffener out solves it.
Grill and lights back in. Lights are functional after half a day of troubleshooting. As part of this project I put in one of crackedback's headlight relay kits... Lights were acting dumb with things like the turn signal swith changing them between bright and dim, turn signal indicators on the dash would stay on any time the headlights were on and not flash, headlights were running when it should've only been marker Lights, etc... After a bunch of head scratching and cussing, i started to pull the stuff back out to just start over tracing every wire... but then once I unhooked a ground wire inside the engine bay, the headlights started working right... Hmmm.... Never experienced this before but I was using a bolt through the plastic tab on the relay to hold the relay to the radiator support panel. The back of that bolt in the engine bay was an ideal spot to put the ground ring from the wiring harness for the front marker light circuit, but apparently that is unacceptable. Ended up using that bolt for the ground ring and moved the relays about an inch away and Drilled a new hole for an individual bolt, and it works perfect. No idea why the relay seemed to care about the bolt running through its plastic tab having a ground wire attached. Weird. Nothing wrong with the headlight relay kit at all, but I sure was lost there for a bit.
Anyway, hood is also back on. Appears I've got some minor interference between the carb hat/boost sleeve and the hood stiffener- hopefully trimming a little of the hood stiffener out solves it.