Hot Wire Ignition Caught Fire

[Mason]

Ha Ha.....
Too funny moparedtn....



Mason, go buy a lottery ticket!

Driving to the gas station now, haha.

 

[Mason]

For the guys who want to roast, go ahead but I just turned 20 and these cars are fossils to me lol. I know I am not the best with wiring either.

If anyone could give genuine help, I''d appreciate it. The semi pink wire running to the coil is fried and that seems to be it. If I'm not mistaken, is that connected to the ballast resistor?

 

[Moparnocar]

For the guys who want to roast, go ahead but I just turned 20 and these cars are fossils to me lol. I know I am not the best with wiring either.

If anyone could give genuine help, I''d appreciate it. The semi pink wire running to the coil is fried and that seems to be it. If I'm not mistaken, is that connected to the ballast resistor?

The wire from the post post of the coil goes to ballast resistor, voltage regulator, and a maybe a few others. It might of melted your switch and/or bulk head too. Youl have to inspect. Also ohm out the coil

 

[Beekeeper]

If you put positive on the negative to the coil then poof? The switched positive hits the positive of the coil the negative is the ground side of the coil from the points or electronic distributor.

 

[Moparnocar]

If you put positive on the negative to the coil then poof? The switched positive hits the positive of the coil the negative is the ground side of the coil from the points or electronic distributor.

No, I believe he hooked pos to pos on the coil, and neg to neg on the coil

 

[Beekeeper]

No, I believe he hooked pos to pos on the coil, and neg to neg on the coil

Oh I see said the blind man

 

[moparedtn]

Oh dang, you mean he wasn't kidding about hooking both sides of the coil to the battery?
Good Lord....
Is anyone close by to this young fellow, so that we might avert future apocolypses perhaps?

 

[Beekeeper]

Oh dang, you mean he wasn't kidding about hooking both sides of the coil to the battery?
Good Lord....
Is anyone close by to this young fellow, so that we might avert future apocolypses perhaps?

Yep we were all 20 once!

 

[eldubb440]

get yourself a test light and/or a cheap little voltmeter

 

[Mason]

The wire from the post post of the coil goes to ballast resistor, voltage regulator, and a maybe a few others. It might of melted your switch and/or bulk head too. Youl have to inspect. Also ohm out the coil

I'll go and mess with it tonight on the voltmeter and see what the coil reads. The problem I initially put positive wire on the coil and no wire on neg post of battery it was no spark, just like when I did connect both.

 

[Mason]

If you put positive on the negative to the coil then poof? The switched positive hits the positive of the coil the negative is the ground side of the coil from the points or electronic distributor.

I know for sure I put the pos with pos and neg with neg. LOL I'm not that terrible.

 

[Beekeeper]

For the guys who want to roast, go ahead but I just turned 20 and these cars are fossils to me lol. I know I am not the best with wiring either.

If anyone could give genuine help, I''d appreciate it. The semi pink wire running to the coil is fried and that seems to be it. If I'm not mistaken, is that connected to the ballast resistor?

Here’s you a wiring diagram to use for the ignition circuit

 

[Mason]

Oh dang, you mean he wasn't kidding about hooking both sides of the coil to the battery?
Good Lord....
Is anyone close by to this young fellow, so that we might avert future apocolypses perhaps?

I completely rebuilt the car without making a mistake this bad lol.

 

[Mason]

Here’s you a wiring diagram to use for the ignition circuitView attachment 1261299

Thank you for the diagram! Everything seems to be okay in the harness and wires hooked up to the coil terminals. The only one that is toast is a small gauge pink wire (or was pink) before it toasted black.

 

[LowBikeMike]

You need to give us a bit more information. What type of ignition system is on the vehicle? Points, Orange box, some other electronic ignition system? A few pictures would help also. Simply putting a wire from battery positive to the positive side of the coil and grounding the other side is not going to burn wires unless if was kept that way for a long time. The system works more or less by doing the same thing. At the same time it's not going to tell you much because the ground side is the switching side as mentioned earlier. No intermittent ground (switching) then no fire. Please describe in detail what exactly you did to get the smoke to appear.

 

[bearman]

Welcome to the school of hard knocks we all have been there. But this will always be with and when you get my age you'll look back at and laugh telling your buddies all about it. Now for the learning listen and guys on here will help you out. Pics would be great of what you have so we can help.

 

[Jerry Hall]

get yourself a test light and/or a cheap little voltmeter

And a wiring diagram, along with a fire extinguisher.

 

[moparedtn]

I completely rebuilt the car without making a mistake this bad lol.

Outstanding!

 

[Brandy]

Go to @MYMOPAR.com and down load from the tech library a manual or two(three)lol. read 'em. Get the right test equipment, plan to spend some quality time with your wiring harness. If you don't check it all out you will wonder if it's going to burn when you least expect it to. poking around in these old cars without the manuals is a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[oldbee]

Still kinda wondering about the orange glow by glovebox? And, a fire extinguisher always needs to be in the car!