whats a bulkhead connector? It's Where All the Wires Cross
Thru the Fire Wall.
Hi To All: Here's My Experience With the Electric System
Problems. 1st Thing I Did Was to Change Over To the Later Style
Alternator With the Electronic Regulator. I Did This Because I Went
With the Later Style Electronic Ignition. One Problem Was That
ALL Bulk Head Connector Connections Were Corroded Badly, I Have No Idea How
It Ran As Well As It Did. Another Problem Showed Up When
the Wire Going to the Amp Gage Fried Completely. The
Alternator Diodes Went Bad or the Resistance in the Corroded Bulk Head
Connectors Too High OR As I Really Think It Was All off the Above
Together. The Larger Out Put of the New Alternator
Just Made the Burnt Wire Problem a Little Worse. The
Fixes. I Replaced the Wire To And From the Amp Gage in the Dashboard
With Wires 1 Size Bigger. A Nice # 10 Wire. When It Fried
It Melted the Insulation in to a Gooey Mess That Stuck Together On
Other Wires Insulation in the Wire Bundles. If I Had Been a Little Worse I'd
Still Be Replacing Wires. It Was A Real Fun Job of Almost Standing
on Your Head Across's the Front Seat to Do the Work. Next Cleaning All the
Bulkhead Connector Connections. Pulling Them Apart One at a Time,
Using Both Electro Clean Spray and Fine Sand Paper to Clean Them. I
Assembled Them With Electrical Grease. When I Assembled the Amp
Meter Wiring I Skipped the Bulkhead Connectors Because The
Plastic in the Housing Where They Went Through Was Melted And Went Straight
Thru. It Ran Just Fine Last Summer for About 400 Miles With No
Problems. My Advice is To Pull Off Some of the Wires Into & Out
of the Bulkhead Connector And See If You Have Any Potential Big
Problems.
Now a Electrical Question. Where to Put Some Fuseable Link
Wires in to the System? If I Have Another "Problem" the Fuseable Is
Much, Much Easier To Replace. The Later Electrical Systems Have the
Good Old Fuseable Links. The 62 Does Not! I Think the Factory
Learned Of Problems With Alternators Systems And Put Them a Few Years
Later.
Thanks & Good Luck on Your Imperial Project.
Dave V.B.
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