What did you do to your Mopar today?

[Islandkent]

Yeah. I guess I do, but I want to cross my T's and dot my I's before I tear mine housing apart. No stone unturned, no backlash unchecked so to speak.

 

[bearman]

Just take your time you do right the first time.

 

[71charger_fan]

Driving home from Carlisle, I lost everything electrical except the ignition. So, I hoped for the best and kept driving. I got home, put it in the garage, and kind of forgot about it as we went on vacation the next weekend. My wife reminded me that a local car show I enjoy was today. So, yesterday I finally opened the hood and found the alternator output cable had somehow vibrated itself around and shorted to the case and burned up the protective boot. Of course it's a one-wire alternator in a Mopar housing and I have an American Autowire harness that only has provision for a one-wire alternator. I pulled the alternator out of storage that I had taken off the car. Then I dug around the attic and found the engine harness that had come off the car and a voltage regulator. I unwrapped the harness and pulled out the ignition run/alternator field portion. I hooked the ignition run wire that I pulled out of the bulkhead disconnect to the HEI coil+, attached the voltage regulator to the inner fender and plugged the connector into that, and hooked the blue and green leads to the alternator field terminals. That left one blue ignition wire coming off the factory splice which I taped off. So, now I have the wiring available to run a one-wire or conventional Mopar alternator.

 

[71charger_fan]

Today, I decided to neaten things up and made a charging harness with only what I need and no extra leads that need to be taped off.

 

[71RR440]

Now that my tail light housings are painted, it's time to fit the LED light bulbs.
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And put some power to them...(don't forget to ground the housing).
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And here's all three lit up....
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Did you need to add resistors to prevent hyper flash of turn signals?

 

[VANDAN]

If our trucks count, I put new Bilstein's on my Puller, rotated the tires, and lubed the entire chassis...

 

[71Beeper]

Did you need to add resistors to prevent hyper flash of turn signals?

No, I did not add a resistor, I went with this electronic flasher.

A buddy uses it on his Dart that he added LED bulbs to.
He says it works just fine with that flasher.

 

[qkcuda]

My starter started hanging up when I released the key, so it was time for a new mini starter. I had to remove the adapter and install the wiring before I bolted it in. I also had to relocate the wiring to lengthen it a bit. Works great.

 

[qkcuda]

While the starter was out I decided to deal with some pesky exhaust leaks. I know the welding job the P/O did at the flanges was not the best, but I also found the gaskets were leaking. A little muffler cement and some new gaskets and it should be good.

 

[Under Pressure]

I abused it last night, wife said go ahead and get it out of your system.
69 Mach 1 behind us now,
Thank you GTX

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Time for an Idle air jet change.

 

[gtx6970]

For the 1st time in nearly 2 months dug mine from under the cover.

Wife and I took it to breakfast.

 

[VANDAN]

1st road test with the car. Had a few issues yesterday, but spent today correcting, and she rode smooth !!!

Getting some hits here so I'll add this...

 

[70 sublime]

Drove my 70 Charger for the very first time under it's own power from the shop to my front yard and back to the shop again
Also was the first time I ever drove a 440 4 speed

 

[Fran Blacker]

Drove my 70 Charger for the very first time under it's own power from the shop to my front yard and back to the shop again
Also was the first time I ever drove a 440 4 speed

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Gotta make a shake down run!

 

[70 sublime]

Um only if it was up hill
I have no master brake cylinder installed yet

 

[eldubb440]

got the doors painted, buffed, and hung on my buddy's Challenger

 

[chargervert]

Finished the rallye wheels on my 2010 Challenger.

 

[eldubb440]

Finished the rallye wheels on my 2010 Challenger.

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hemi orange 40 years apart?

 

[kiwigtx]

Trying to work up the nerve to tackle this swap!

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