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So this is about a 1970 Dart with new stock wiring (M&H). It has a standard dash cluster (not rallye). It has a cluster of Sun gauges (5 in all), also all new and also newly wired by me. I wanted the gauges to dim with the dash so I wired the new gauge lights to the instrument fuse ON THE HOT...

A friend of mine and a FABO member passed away several years ago and periodically I help his widow keep his 67 dart going to take to shows. The car has a 340 with Mopar electronic ignition (distributor and ECU), a round (standard shaped) MSD coil and a 2 connector ballast resistor. This system...

#halifaxhops Along Rt 66 in Odell Illinois is a Standard Oil gas station and garage. It is owned by the Rt 66 Association of Illinois, and they have been restoring the place as funds are available. In one of the garage bays, I found this Sun Distributor Machine and thought folks, particularly...

I am going over my 340 and wanted to get the best pugs and the correct gap for my set up. This is a 1969 340 with factory TA heads and forged nominal 10.5:1 pistons (my best guess is between 10 and 9.5 to 1 actual compression). The car is street driven with very few passes down the 1/4 mile...

I need a reality check. I had some problems with my neutral safety switch engaging, so I got a new one several weeks ago. Now car starts fine, but I realized that I lost my back-up lights. I put the car up and unplugged the switch at the trans and jumped the outer two sockets in the wire plug...

for years my temp gauge has worked well, verified with infrared sensor at the thermostat housing. At 180 to 190 degrees it sat 1/3 of the way into the bracketed part of the gauge. Once up to temp, if you turned the car off and came back 20 minutes later the gauge read 2/3 or a bit more and...

I'm on the road, 2200 miles into a 5000 mile road trip. A 1970 Dart, 318, all new M&H wiring throughout. New stock output alternator, group 24 battery, 70 style regulator. When I start the car in the morning (cold) the ammeter goes to 15 to 30 amps and then comes down to just barely charging...

Out around town in my 1970 Dart (340, auto) yesterday I stopped for a snack and a drink and when I came out and I turned the switch - nothing happened. I fiddled around with the shifter and tried Park and neutral, but no dice. I figured that the NSS plug on the trans had come undone, crawled...

I'm working on a 1970 Dart. All the wiring is new M&H stuff. I've had the car running for a month or so and have put a few hundred miles on it and everything runs fine. In working to check various connections to be sure they are secure, I put my finger on the ballast resistor and burned the...

I have been completely rebuilding a 1970 Dart including all new electrical. Of course the one thing that didn't work in the whole electrical system is the thing that is most difficult to get to - the instrument cluster. Everything on the right side works fine, the dash lights work fine all...

I am just getting my 70 Dart GT running. While it was apart I rebuilt the entire dash and gauges, assuming it's a lot easier to do out of the car, and because I had a bunch of non-stock wiring to accommodate and I wanted it to tuck up and be wired properly. I bought new temp and gas gauges...

Is there a reason that the gas tank sending unit has to be grounded to the fuel line? I've made some modifications in my fuel line to add an electric booster pump and the factory ground strap doesn't reach. Can I just attach a ground wire to the sending unit outlet and ground it to the frame???

I'm putting together a 318 for my Dart with an LD4B Edelbrock intake. It does not have the bosses to mount the stock coil bracket. I saw that 340 six packs had a bracket to mount the coil strap to. I've looked at dozens of pictures of 340 six packs and the way the relocated coil sits, you...

So I'm trying to find a high CCA modern sealed battery that is black and smooth to fake a retro battery. Weskcar is now making a deluxe kit that, instead of stickers, includes side and top plates that are cast like the originals plus fake correct looking caps in various colors, but to pull it...

I'm putting the dash back together in a 1970 Dart (whole dash out of car). The flasher unit for the emergency flashers clips into a socket (which I have), but damned if I can remember where the socket clips onto the dash... any help???

I'm working on a 1970 Dart GT. I want to add 3 gauges in a cluster. Problem is that this car has both a console and AC vents that seem like they will take up the usual location. Any suggestions for placement??? or a picture of where you mounted your gauges ???

I'm working on a 1970 Dart with relatively new M&H wiring (which was a dream to work with). On the "instrument" fuse terminal I piggybacked an extra wire to feed the added instruments in the car so they would work with those in the stock instrument panel. There are three gauges and a tach and...

I have 3 1970 Darts. The wiring is pretty stock on all of them. I've been replacing all the harnesses on #3 and wanted to add the subharness for an interior light package while I was doing it. As a reference, I pulled down some of the under dash wiring from #2 to see just how it was put...

So I am in the middle of a dash wiring project. I bought a roll of the non-adhesive black tape to wrap long runs of multiple wires. How best to secure the ends once you are done? What did the factory do?

I disassembled the dash on my 70 Dart and removed this bugger 6 months ago, but damned if I can remember where it went or what it did. How about some help?

So I'm working on a 1970 Dart and when I bought the car there were a pair of really good wiper pivots with the car, uninstalled. So the ones on the car were trash, so I installed the better ones and when I went to hook up the linkage the bushings fit nicely in the linkage arms, and the pin on...

So here we are in our unending search for electrical truth! Car is a 1970 Dart. Car came with an accessory lighting package. In the car, that means that juice that would normally go to the cigar lighter (high class Mopar, no mere cigarettes here), instead plugs into an accessory wiring...

1970 Dodge Dart. Attached to my 2 speed wiper motor is what looks like a ceramic ballast resistor. Does someone know the function of this thing? My 3 and variable speed motors never had anything like this. I don't see this at all in the FSM service manual wiring diagram. There seem to be...

I never throw anything away that I might need. In working on the wiring for my 1970 Dart I was going through a big bin full of complete and partial wiring harnesses (for parts) and decided it was time to sort it all out and label things to make future searches easier. I came up with a sub...

So I am working on a 1970 Dart GT that came with 2 speed wipers and a manual foot pump for the washer. After thinking about it I decided to get rid of the manual washer system and go to electric (fear of a malfunction dumping a quart of washer fluid in my nice freshly painted floorpan and new...

I'm working on rear lights - brakes, back-up etc. and need to clean out corroded bulb sockets. I seem to remember there is some magic potion that you can buy to accomplish this task. Any suggestions/information would be greatly appreciated!

I'm rebuilding the dash unit on a standard (non-rallye) dash cluster. I want to replace the voltage limiter. Most that I have found are made by RTE and carry a part#IVR4. Classic Industries is selling IVR607 for this application. All the sources for IVR4 seem to cost $50, but the one from...

I'm working on my 1970 Dart with a standard gauge cluster. I talked to folks at Instrument Specialties about testing/restoring my gauges (of unknown status) because I really don't want to take this cluster in and out multiple times (including the freshly restored bezel). I said something to IS...

I bought a car recently with retrofitted Mopar electronic ignition (originally points). Can anyone ID the ignition box and distributor from the numbers printed or engraved on tags? I understand that the quality of both units depends on the specifics and I'm trying to figure out if these are...

So over the years I have been led to believe that the reason there is a ballast resistor and a low volt start feed, as well as a full voltage run lead is that back in the days of points ignition, reduced voltage to the points when the engine is cranking at a low RPM made the points last...