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As soon as you release the key to the run position it dies. Didn't someone just post about that happening recently? If there was, I can't find it now. Anyways, did a lot of work on this car a little over a year ago but it was all mechanical and no electrical as I'm shade blind and faded wires only make it worse for me. The car also has no ballast resistor in the system and still has a point system on it. The car came for a carb issue but the carb seems to be decent idling and revving up even right after firing it up cold. Yeah, I hot wired it.
I replaced the ignition switch with a known good one that I had stuffed away and the car does the same thing. Dies when you release the key. The under hood wiring on this thing SUCKS!! It even has house type wire nuts on it. Told him he needs to buy a new under hood harness as this one is junk (dried and hard as rocks) but he wants to get it running as is for now. He did say it's been running fine until recently. The points don't seem to be fried because I just started it and ran fine....and the battery is only 12.3v.....
I replaced the ignition switch with a known good one that I had stuffed away and the car does the same thing. Dies when you release the key. The under hood wiring on this thing SUCKS!! It even has house type wire nuts on it. Told him he needs to buy a new under hood harness as this one is junk (dried and hard as rocks) but he wants to get it running as is for now. He did say it's been running fine until recently. The points don't seem to be fried because I just started it and ran fine....and the battery is only 12.3v.....