IML: 65 Electrical woes

["Pete Engel" <peter.engel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoted from a previous post:

> I'm surprised the red one ends up under the a/c.  The negative cable 
> (usually black) is terminated somewhere around the a/c compressor.  It 
> hooks directly to the engine.  Is this cable connected to the negative 
> terminal on the battery?
>

I'm in the process of stripping a 66 Chrysler Town and Country wagon.  It
has factory A/C.  At some point in the past 40 years the negative battery
cable was replaced.  The cable used was red.  It is bolted to the engine
using the forwardmost intake manifold bolt on the driver's side of the
engine.  Well, actually, not intake manifold bolt but the one forward of
that.  It's another threaded hole in the cylinder head, one used to hold the
a/c compressor bracket to the head.

As for the positive cable, I have yet to see one go directly from the
battery to the starter relay.  Someone is thinking FoMoCo.  On every Mopar
I've worked on the positive battery cable (defined as the thickest + cable)
goes directly to the starter motor.  However, a fairly large wire does go
from the battery positive terminal to the starter relay.  Another largish
wire then goes from the relay to the starter.  So the starter relay handles
only starter SOLENOID current; starter MOTOR current is handled by the large
cable going directly from the battery to the starter.

I sounds to me like the main fusible link on the 65 melted at the same time
the carburetor was attacked.  Possibly the wiring harness on the inner
fender got moved during the attack ;-)

Pete in PA




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