Thank you to everyone for the many suggestions. It turned out to be a
bad Amperage gauge on the dash. I finally got the instrument
cluster pulled out tonight and all the connections were good so I bypassed
the gauge and everything is working perfect!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 2:37
PM
Subject: [FWDLK] electrical problems -
off topic car
This may be off topic but I figured the general concept would still apply
to Forwardlook cars and frankly I don't know who else to ask.
I have a 1967 New Yorker that just recently started having ignition
problems. Sometimes when the key is turned on, nothing comes on like the
battery is dead. Sometimes, I can get one crank out of the motor before the
enitre system goes dead again.
The first time this happend, I thought it was the battery or a bad
ignition switch so I proceeded to hot wire it with a jumper from the coil to
the battery. As soon as I connected the jumper, the entire ignition came back
on since the key was still in the 'on' position. I was able to start the car
with the key once a jumper wire was attached.
There is 12v current at the at the main terminal on the switch even when
the problem is happening. I have replaced the ignition switch with a known
good one thinking it might be bad without any change in results.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Don Roberts
Kansas City, KS
1958 Imperial x4
1967 New Yorker
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