I took-out the fuse box yesterday for a little light cleaning. Despite all of the scrubbing, I really only cleaned the tarnished brass terminals. I wasn't entirely sure they would actually conduct electricity. S0, I came up with the idea to soak them in some diet soda that we've had for several months. I soaked them overnight and this is what I woke-up to this am. It looks great! I can't wait to starting connecting everything. Got to buy some wire, some terminals, and some shrink tubing.
I mentioned earlier that some time over the last 40 years, someone stripped all 6 wires coming from the ignition switch. I could have left it and just made sure there was a fire extinguisher in the passenger seat. Below is a close-up picture of the pigtail that comes from the ignition switch. I probably need to buy a new ignition switch...assuming that the reason the wires are stripped, and the reason the mysterious starter button was added was because the switch was bad. Maybe not...after all a new switch is $11 from Autozone. Why go through the trouble buying a starter switch??? We'll never know. Yeah...that's a wire nut...even worse; there was another bare spot about 6 inches from the end...I have no idea why.
Below is the repaired version. I've been looking for a new pigtail for the last 3 weeks with no luck. I'll probably have to buy a used one somewhere. until then, I reconnected, soldered, covered the splice in shrink tubing and covered in wire holders. These are heavy 10 gauge wires so it took two.
I knew someone would find a need for diet coke that did not make you fat. thank you.
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