swervin, amen on those electrical gremlins being a pain in the ass. I've been re-wiring a 66 mustang for a co-worker & got the new harness installed under the dash & started hooking up the start/ign system. I'm feeling confident that everything's right & decide to try & start it. Power to the switch in the 'ON' position but it wouldn't turn over (no power in the 'START' position). I dbl. check my connections & everything looks good. I'm thinking, maybe it's the nuetral safety, so I ask the guy if he had any probs (other than the ign switch catching on fire & burning up the surrounding wiring) when the vehicle last ran. He says no, so I figure it's something I wired. Well, after a week of trying to figure it out, I was about to give up & take it to a local shop. I was just sitting in the car & thought 'what the hell' & put it in nuetral. I turned the key & the engine spun/tried to fire. Dohhh . . . I should have trusted my judgement before spending the week looking. Now I have to just figure out why the dash lights won't work. Hhmmm, surely a ground, but which one??????????? Oh, I fixed the nuetral safety so it starts in park now too.
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