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  1. barbee6043

    fuse box...64 Merc Comet!!!!

    I admit I have always wanted a 64 Comet and so I have a builder. I have the Merc FSM but it does not show the fuse box that my car has. MY Fuse box is also empty/ I also know 64 had some mid season changes. But... The box takes 3 fuses, for the usual circuits if figure, and I have also some...
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    Wiring in new wire at tail lights

    Its my 64 Comet the wires for tail ltes has plug indeals, which are of no use. I wantto simple run new wries to the sockets I replaced. Each side of housing has 2 sockets with the 1157 bulbs with two filaments. My question is should I cut the wire and run in and out from the socket wire and...
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    headlight switch

    Yes I have taken them out a few times or so, BUT I can mash in the release button and the stem will not come out! I will rotate but not pulll on out. The tiny wire winding in its reastate were coming out, but I doubt that has anything to do with it. Any ideas, it has to come out!
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    voltage source

    On this car, the PO just installed a new sender for a oil pressure gauge, so I added under dash electrical gauge. I used the run side of ballast for electrical source, and I have also adding a tach. Where should I splice into for current for the tach? If I use that same ballast source...
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    ignition

    Back on the '62 Lancer. I have 12.5 at batt., same in and out bulkhead, cleaned bulkhead terminals best I can. The brown wire at ballast in start reads 9.5 v. Same v. inside under dash at the inside of bulkhead. I have traced voltage as thus: Replaced the ingnition switch, and checked...
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    Mopar ECU

    When I change over to the ECU , do I splice into the 2 prong ballast at the side where there are the two blue wires, one goes to coil +, other to firewall, which ONE???? Thanks
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    headlite question

    I have never had any headlight s that did not work except need of replacing switch. This is a 62 Lancer. I have new and working dimmer switch. The high and low beam wires at firewall ( red , black) are hot, when I punch the dimmer for each to be hot. same thing tests tru to the headlight...
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    mechnical temp gauge

    I know... I got it from Summit and it was cheap enough. It only works when I wiggle it at the fitting where it goes into the block, ( 225 slant). It has the correct brass fitting. I bought it last year and it sat on the shelf for ever before I installed it. I guess where the wire goes...
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    Ignition wirng harness

    Car is 71 duster 225 points. New points, condensor, starter relay. On going project, it had sat for quite a few years before I got it, got it running, tuned. Not yet insured so it only gets a 1/2 mile check out trip down the road. It does this occasionally. It is started and warmed up, I...
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    super six - thermostat choke

    I have the 79 super six 2 bbl engine in my 71 duster. I need to run hot wire to this thermostat choke via the original electric choke control. MY fuse box is pretty well full of extra wires for gauges, tack... can I spice into the brown wire off the ballast that is for the ignition 2 run ( I...
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    volt gauge hook up

    shoud it be wired into blue /w tracer ign wire under dash, or run from big hot post at alternator??
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    starter relay-clutch safety switch

    1971 duster slant 3 speed manual....... I have New starter relay, it is the one for older 4 speed manual models that did not have the CSS or terminal for NSS. So I am not using the clutch safety switch.... Car will sometimes not get current to the ign switch and with the test light, shows NO...
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    auto tape?

    I am on my last roll of that special tape auto used to wrap around it electrical wires... anyone know the name it and source.??
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    several questions

    1. What year/or month did electronic ign. begin on the Duster SLANT cars? 2. Duster in question is 71 slant car. It has a 2 field alternator and points dist. and newer style VR. I know I can ground one of the field wires. Which one?? BUT must I then go to old style VR or can...
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    coil resistor

    Is not the resistor sometime found at an OEM coil simply to reduce radio static???? has nothing to do with performance of the coil right?
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    wiring harness temp wire connector?

    can that connector that slides on the sender be found at an auto parts store????
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    HEI for slant?

    as a continuation to another thread, I understand the HEI changeover, except what is done to the stock electronic mopar distributor. this is simply going o a 170 slant 62 lancer. stock engine, stick shift. looking for good drivability, mileage. I have left...
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    ECU meltdown

    I have owned half a dozen 70's mopars over the decades that came factory with ECU boxes, and I have seen the ones in the boneyards where the insulation in the backside of that unit ran out down the fenderwell. never had this occur with one I owned.. I drug...
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    coil wired backwards!

    71 duster slant, points, I of course, dragged it home not running, last time liscensed was 20 yrs ago. fresh battery, getting gas, no start, I check for fire at coil, none, I see PO has wired it backwards! it has new looking condenser...
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    which voltage regulator?

    raising from the dead 71 duster slant, points dist. in process of getting it running again( dead since '98).. OP had cut the wires to the VR. VR missing in action too. did mother mopar go to that newer style VR in 70??? or was it for the...
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    starter relay

    71 duster slant 3 in floor .hasn't run in 15 yrs or so. fresh battery, replaced the starter r elay (NEW) with one WITHOUT the terminal for clutch safety switch. I have current to pos. post at relay, current in and of of firewall, did the MAD upgrade...
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    clutch safety starting switch

    1972 stick duster. raising it from the dead. seems it came factory with the clutch safety switch, none at parts store, not paying $200 off feebay. can't I just use a starter relay from the 69 roadrunner ( parts store only offers the one for auto )...
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    '64 dart amp gage

    i'm sure the M.A.D. conversion is my next step, but here is what I find. good battery fully charged, I have done this with 2 good used alt. one single field, the other square back 2 field alt. ( with second field connection grounded).... after the engine...
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    tail/ brake/turn socket

    65 dart. the sockets for the tail/brake/turn lights were froze. pentrant soaking to no avail. I got some a few months ago ( if I remember right) out of another 65 dart at buddys yard. yes, they have the black and green wires to them. cleaned up, correct...
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    source for new tailight socket???? 65 dart

    ????? I see what they ( feebay seller) claims to be the socket for 65 dart. it has two wires , but it says for park lights, tail lights, b ut does not it being for the tail and brake? turn///// anyone know the ( standard) part no i'm looking for.?? thanks
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    big volts

    72 duster 225 slant, points, been sitting a lot since last fall. always been running driving car. the batt, is new. reads 12.6 at the battery, when running the ballast reads like 16.5 and 18.5 v. ( key on, ign 1, I get 13-15 v and 16...
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    ecu mounting

    I know Ma mopar used a bracket behind the ecu when they went etectronic control box in early 70's.... I 'm fixing to mount the ecu on fender of the 62 toad. I have decades before always just screwed it to the fender or firewall...
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    another project- another wiring problem!

    I took a break from the 65 dart yesterday that was my attention last week. will go out this a m and check volt meter readings on it and see whats what??? and let it be known..... I drug home a 62 lancer this fall. looks like orig. 170, 3...
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    alt, single field to double field?

    65 dart slant,..... I just got new 60 amp alternator ,it is square back, it has the 2 field wires, have correct style vr for this car (points still),..... I know I've read on here somewhere about maybe grounding one of the field wires OR what...
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    best type alternator?

    I will pose this questions to those with that fantastic electrical knowledge!!!! my small herd of projects are basically this: 62-5 A bodies, stock slants to 273 cars, NO honkins sterios, no add ons, only thing I have been known to do is change over to...
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