Hi Paul,
This is the typical effects that can be attributed to a bad ballast
resistor. This should be a white ceramic rectangle on mounted on the
firewall.
Replace it- about $4.00 at your local NAPA, and keep a couple extra on
hand. These things love to fail at the worst possible time.
Typical of the Muscle Car era problems.
Charles
Paul Holmgren wrote:
mrdonr@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This may be off topic but I figured the general concept would still
apply to Forwardlook cars and frankly I don't know who else to ask.
I have a 1967 New Yorker that just recently started having ignition
problems. Sometimes when the key is turned on, nothing comes on like
the battery is dead. Sometimes, I can get one crank out of the motor
before the enitre system goes dead again.
The first time this happend, I thought it was the battery or a bad
ignition switch so I proceeded to hot wire it with a jumper from the
coil to the battery. As soon as I connected the jumper, the entire
ignition came back on since the key was still in the 'on' position. I
was able to start the car with the key once a jumper wire was attached.
There is 12v current at the at the main terminal on the switch even
when the problem is happening. I have replaced the ignition switch
with a known good one thinking it might be bad without any change in
results.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Don Roberts
FIRE WALL CONNECTOR!!??!!??!!??!!??!!??
Probably needs unplugged, cleaned good, terminals all checked, inside
and out, then lightly sillycone greesed and replugged.
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