Josh
08-25-2008, 06:56 AM
I am having trouble doing the conversion on my 67 Catalina. All went well with the distributor swap and it started and ran fine while testing with the 8 volt wire that originally went to the coil. I then took that “resistance” wire and cut it one inch from the firewall fuse block, but it still measured 8 volts. I took apart the fuse block to trace the wire and it seems that on the interior side of the block, the terminal has a yellow and a white wire going to it. The white wire looked like it had some sort of cloth fibers under the plastic outer coating. This traveled up over the dash cluster and “disappeared” it seems because it does not seem to come back down anywhere. The yellow wire I traced to the ignition switch. I spliced into this yellow wire just after it comes out of the fuse block and ran it to the BATT terminal on the distributor. This supplied 12 volts with key on. It ran great. After driving to town it started hiccupping and I pulled over when smoke came out of the dash vents. Now, I can turn the motor over and it fires up great but as soon as I let go of the key it shuts down. I re-tested the one inch of wire I left coming out of the firewall originally and it now does the same thing?? I am thoroughly confused now. Can anyone help me out, thanks!