I once had similar symptoms on a Olds and discovered that my positive battery cable was zapping and then eventually welded itself on the exhaust manifold ...thank God it didn't burn the whole wiring system down ou: take a look ...you never know
Ok put in the chrysler resistor and it fired up and ran. I then turn it off and it wouldnt start back to the same as before. I touched the resistor it was hot enough to burn my finger pretty bad :ball: . Put a tester on it had power on both side before and now just the side coming from the fuse box. Dave
Similar thing happened to me, except it was the ignition wire to the block. I pinched it between a bracket while painting and reassembling. The car ran fine for a bit, then it would just die and not start back up. As the wire heated up, it destroyed more insulation, so it was constantly grounded. Not sure if you have an HEI distributor or not, but the symptoms youre describing are also common with the ign. module in the distributor.
I have a points ignition. No wires are pinched just started doing this after sitting a couple weeks i did'nt do any work to it in that time either. Dave
could some one post a pic of the resistor wire or detail what it looks like and where it is in the harness esp in a 66 thanks jim
Is there a bulkhead plug where the harness goes through the firewall? If so I'd start there. The resistor wire may be either stranded or one solid conductor. It will be made out of nichrome wire. No copper. That makes it easy enough to identify. Nothing magical about it except the length and that can vary enough to make repairs. Splices and crimps will work fine. Most likely problem spots are at the connectors and terminations, any splices, anywhere the harness has been nicked or otherwise damaged, and in areas of high movement or vibration. The wire will go directly from the key switch to the coil, through a bulkhead connector if there is one, and may double back inside the harness to use up the required length to get the resistor value right. HTH Jim
Found the problem!!!!! :beers2: The wire from the coil to the starter was burnt and grounding to the starter.
Just got back from a drive and it runs great again. A big thank to tom miller for coming over to help me a couple times.
That resistor gets very hot, thats why you install it under the hood. Make sure that you still leave the wire from the solenoid connected to the coil as this provides full voltage for stating.
