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Pull the radiator and have a radiator shop clean it out. Fan shroud is also a big help. Put a spring in that lower hose to prevent collapse. and get a FlowKooler water pump with hi flow 180 thermostat. .
You need to get a wiring schematic for your car and start tracing out the wires involved one by one. Something is mis wired, especially if everything worked prior to the re-wire.
About 8 years ago I replaced my defective standard oil pump with a hi volume oil pump pump on my 66 383. I had not changed out an oil pump before so I did some reading up on the process before doing it. I found a thread, that I recall was on this forum, that suggested packing the new pump with...
If you are considering adding additional loads as you mention, chances are the stock wiring of the car needs to be modified as it was designed for the current rating of a stock alternator.
In my 66 Charger I keep a basic " Survival Kit " in the trunk. Luckily, never needed any of the stuff, but figure I'll be able to get it on the road again by covering the most typical issues with these cars.
* Basic tools
* LED work light
* Multi Meter
* Spare coil
* Spare ballast resistor
*...
After going to all the work on your gauges, you definitely want to get the RTE voltage limiter and install it before you put the cluster in your car. The original limiter that is internal to the fuel gauge is the weak link here and it get's disabled as part of installing the RTE unit. If the...
As Don suggested, disconnect the headlamp connectors at the headlamp buckets on either side of radiator and check to see if you are getting voltage at the connector with headlights turned on. The clicking you are hearing could well be the thermal circuit breaker for the headlight motors. That...
Could be just an adjustment... or a bad Neutral safety switch. Don't believe that I read anywhere that you replaced the NSS. You did things to the wire which, if was sorted to ground somehow would be just like bypassing the NSS which provides a ground.