Re: IML: 1965 electricals

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---- JIM LORENZEN <jdlpdx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Really.....  Well, as Rosanna Rosanna Dana used to say, "Never mind".
> I would add a fuseable link if it does not have  one.  I did this to my 64 after my wife hooked up the cables back ward and fried some wires.  
> 
>   Unless someone added one later, the 65 doesn't have a fusible link. I'm not sure if 67-68 has it, but sure that 69 does. The one on my 69 fried last year.
> 
>   John
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: JIM LORENZEN 
>     To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>     Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:55 PM
>     Subject: Re: IML: 1965 electricals
> 
> 
>     Hi Timothy,
> 
>     I think I've got to go with Pete as to the fusible link.  If you touched the wrong cable enough to get sparks, even for a moment, the link could have sacrificed its self  to save the rest of the system - which is exactly what it's there for.  I may be wrong, but that is the first place I'd look.
> 
>     Once again, good luck!
> 
>     Jim L. in OR
>       ----- Original Message ----- 
>       From: Bogart3147@xxxxxxx 
>       To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>       Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:08 PM
>       Subject: Re: IML: 1965 electricals
> 
> 
>       Where I lucked out on that was that there were sparks when I began to hook up the first end of the jumper cable.  I knew something was wrong immediately, as the Volvo was running at the time, so I knew to hook it up to the other post.
> 
>       Timothy Callaway
>       1965 Crown 4-door
> 
>       The same thing happened to me on my parents '60 one night in 1970 when 
>       I was using it. Someone at a Drive In Movie Theatre tried to help me by 
>       jumping it, and hooked them up wrong because the negative cable was 
>       red. The battery blew up, but luckily it didn't harm the paint.
> 
>       Paul W.
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: jdlpdx@xxxxxxxxxxx
>       To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       Sent: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:02 AM
>       Subject: Re: IML: 1965 electricals
> 
>       Hi Tim,
>        
>       Back when I was using my '60 as a daily driver I friend of mine needed 
>       a jump.  He hooked the cables up wrong and my battery blew up! There 
>       were pieces of battery all over the place.  The paint on the passenger 
>       front fender still has some minor acid burns.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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