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Can I do this?
First some background info. The hot wire to the coil was losing power after the truck started, which caused it to die. The guy who I took it to spliced into another hot under the hood and ran that wire to the coil hot, which works. The problem is when the switch is on, the connection(where he spliced into the other hot) gets hot and smokes. It has begun to burn the wire in to. Not good.
Can I just run a hot wire from the fuse panel to the coil? If not what can I do?
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Points or HEI?
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Well from what I read at CK5 I can not run a direct wire. Does anybody have a diagram of the wiring for the coil?
Thanks
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Here are wire diagrams. http://www.geocities.com/chevroletc1070/wiringdias.html
The PO of my '69 truck did something similar, but he put in a toggle switch to start the truck and by-passed the neutral safety switch. I had to put the the key in the run position and hit the toggle switch. Eventually, it burned up the hot wire. I re-wired it according to the diargams. I bought a new pigtail for the ignition plug and a new switch. I haven't had a problem since.
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