Well, the 84 Cutlass definitely needs a lot of electrical work done on it.
Previous owner, said he had problems with the wiper motor blowing a fuse, so he wired on a small switch to the fuse box. Yes, that is not safe but I thought it was just, an issue with the wiring there.
So I put it aside.
Well, anyway the charge light on the dash gets very bright, and dim and at other times.
Because the alternator didn't charge the battery either, the 2 wires at the top, so I replaced them and cleaned the connector.
And I wasn't surprised to see the the wire going to the battery was in pretty rough shape.
So I replaced that with a 4 gauge wire, and it started charging ok.
And another issue is I can crank the starter over fine. Other times not so good.
So I replaced the ground cable. Ran better for awhile. Then started acting up, again especially after I advanced my timing.
Then I replaced the cable, going to the starter. Went ok, but as I was working on it the two main power wires, GM runs from off the main bolt, back to the harness broke off from the connector, just like with my Delta so now there was no power going to the fuse block 🥵🖕🖕🖕
Although this was a factory connection, I am not too upset, wasn't duct taped by some shît owner from before then man- it could have broken off during driving, it must have had maybe, what 4-5 strands of wiring keeping that on 🙃😭😭😭
So like with the other instance- I decided to make it easy, wired the 2 main red power cables directly to battery with my own fusible link, and NOT off the starter.
And the power worked for a few minutes. But it didn't want to crank, and eventually again I lost all lights as if one of the battery cables were not connected.
But I know this is no cable I put in, because the + terminal now starts to get hot, indicating a short or bad ground at the fuse block or alternator.
Previous owner, said he had problems with the wiper motor blowing a fuse, so he wired on a small switch to the fuse box. Yes, that is not safe but I thought it was just, an issue with the wiring there.
So I put it aside.
Well, anyway the charge light on the dash gets very bright, and dim and at other times.
Because the alternator didn't charge the battery either, the 2 wires at the top, so I replaced them and cleaned the connector.
And I wasn't surprised to see the the wire going to the battery was in pretty rough shape.
So I replaced that with a 4 gauge wire, and it started charging ok.
And another issue is I can crank the starter over fine. Other times not so good.
So I replaced the ground cable. Ran better for awhile. Then started acting up, again especially after I advanced my timing.
Then I replaced the cable, going to the starter. Went ok, but as I was working on it the two main power wires, GM runs from off the main bolt, back to the harness broke off from the connector, just like with my Delta so now there was no power going to the fuse block 🥵🖕🖕🖕
Although this was a factory connection, I am not too upset, wasn't duct taped by some shît owner from before then man- it could have broken off during driving, it must have had maybe, what 4-5 strands of wiring keeping that on 🙃😭😭😭
So like with the other instance- I decided to make it easy, wired the 2 main red power cables directly to battery with my own fusible link, and NOT off the starter.
And the power worked for a few minutes. But it didn't want to crank, and eventually again I lost all lights as if one of the battery cables were not connected.
But I know this is no cable I put in, because the + terminal now starts to get hot, indicating a short or bad ground at the fuse block or alternator.