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10-07-2016, 03:21 PM
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Vintage air wiring
So the Vintage Air kit calls to connect the red positive wire from the VA harness directly to the positive battery post and the 2 white ground wires to the actual battery negative post. How have some of you done this to make it look clean? I don't really like the idea of having a bunch of different wires coming off the battery itself, besides the actual battery cables. Did you do a junction block before the battery? I figured I could hook up that red positive to the fuse block but Vintage Air says it is very important to connect to the actual battery. I also have the junction block that came stock in my 70. This junction block has a wire from the positive battery cable and from there it has a couple wires branching off to the front end wire harness. Would it be OK to hook up the Vintage Air junction block to the existing block or would it be best to consolidate?
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10-07-2016, 04:11 PM
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Re: Vintage air wiring
What about taking the how wire to the terminal block by the core support and take the grounds to somewhere on the frame/body out of sight.
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10-07-2016, 04:48 PM
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Re: Vintage air wiring
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10-07-2016, 04:53 PM
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Re: Vintage air wiring
I agree with you. 12V is 12V How does the AC know where it is connected as long as it is getting the power? But I'm sure there is a reason if the insist on it. I would like to know?
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10-07-2016, 04:55 PM
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Re: Vintage air wiring
As long as the right amperage wire is being used, I don't see why a junction block would not work. It's like binging the battery to the wire instead of the wire to the battery.
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10-07-2016, 05:00 PM
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Re: Vintage air wiring
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10-08-2016, 02:06 AM
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Re: Vintage air wiring
The way I see it is because they want it on a 30amp circuit breaker. I don't know of any trucks that carry 40 amps. So you can mount it to the block on the passenger side fender and then run it through the 40 amp breaker as shown in their PDF file.
 http://www.vintageair.com/AC%20Basic...%2029%2009.pdf
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10-09-2016, 11:48 AM
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Re: Vintage air wiring
I ran mine off the junction block on 2 of them I have installed. I never had any problems.
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