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OK, I got the fuse block repaired. The hot wire I pulled through straight to the horn relay, eliminating my previous splice, with the watertight butt splice. The ground wire I just used some 10awg quick connects. The lock tabs broke off the connector plugs, so I'll have to keep an eye on them. I may just smear the plug body flanges with silicone to glue them in. I also bolted the ammeter ring terminals together, and wrapped with black tape. Thus the alternator gauge is out of business.
If you used regular old black electricians tape to cover the ammeter lugs take a small wire tie and put it over the tape end. That will insure that the tape can't unravel.
With black electrical tape, if you tug the tape to break it and "finish" the connection, it will in time unravel. The memory in the plastic will pull the end back.Quote:
Originally Posted by NTFDAY
To do the job right, cut the tape with a razor ( or scissors ) to finish or end the connection.
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Originally Posted by 34_40
Over time with the drastic changes in temperature black electricians tape will unravel no matter what it's cut with. A plastic wire tie will insure that that will not happen. In the last 40 or 50 years I've never had one unravel and I sure wouldn't want a 12 gauge wire to become exposed under the dash. Doing the job right is not nearly important as how safe it is.
You could use one of the amp meter's lugs as a junction point with no worry of the wire shorting against anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird77clone
Ah, that's so crazy it just might work.
Oh well, as I have it, one less thing to hook back up
Oh, just read the comments on the black tape. Good stuff. I try to avoid tape whenever possible, but in an application such as this, I end my wrap with a dab of super glue. They never come loose.
BUT, the more I think of it, the more I like using a gauge lug as junction. I think that's how I'll do it.
Probably this will close this thread.
The dash is back in. The fusible link was eliminated. The fusebox had two damaged terminals which I eliminated. The amps gauge was bypassed by putting all three wires under one lug on the gauge.
The dash was completely removed and installed with one minor glitch, and THAT loose ground was found and corrected.