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Old 01-05-2004, 05:48 PM
Robert T. Faust Robert T. Faust is offline
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Hi Don,
Eh, as long as your answering questions related to wirings (?), on my older model (92 CR) with Chevette Steering column, and CR wiring harness, with a Ford Engine, are there two ignition wires going to the balast resistor from the ignition switch?
1) one that resides on the side which goes through the resistor (for after the engine is running, feeding the coil with the reduced voltage)
2) and one which sits on the side that has the wire going to the coil (not going through balast) and only activated when the key is in the starting position?
The reason I'm asking is that presently, if my battery is somewhat down, and I'm turning the engine over, with the starter spinning (drawing the voltage) the ignition wire to the balast drops and after then going through the balast it is reduced even more, lowering the voltage to the coil, not enough to fire up. When this does happen, as the engine is spinning I let go of the key (releasing from starting position to the on positon) and it fires right up.
Someone mentioned that Chevy and Ford use different ignition wirings, the Ford with the solenoids and the Chevy's with the 2 wires to the balast resistor from the ignition switch.
Thanks,
Bob
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