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Old 11-14-2014, 12:44 AM   #1
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no power (electrical)

I just replaced the starter in my 68', twice . The first time there must have been a crossed wire or a bare spot on the positive cable. The truck backfired, lost power , died and smoke poured out from under the passenger side fender. I popped the hood and the positive battery cable had melted.

I thought for sure I fried the starter, turns out the positive cable was the only casualty. Reconnected everything tried to start it up and nothing. Re-checked connections still nothing. Also no lights, parking, headlights or brake. broke out the test light:

Battery is good
Power from starter good
Power to the coil
Power at alternator
Power at fuse block
Power to ignition switch

Any ideas ?

Thank you!
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Old 11-14-2014, 01:20 AM   #2
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Re: no power (electrical)

I moved this to the Electrical section to get you some specialized help from our Electrical gurus.
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Old 11-14-2014, 11:13 PM   #3
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Does it crank? Spark? The starter has two terminals inside towards block gets purple outside small terminal takes the resistor bypass wire to provide full battery Vogt during crank.
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Old 01-04-2015, 11:45 PM   #4
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Re: no power (electrical)

This is old news now, turns out the battery was not as good as I thought. It was actually dead. It had enough juice to barely get any power to the headlights so I assumed it was good. Volt meter proved me wrong and it wouldn't hold a charge.

Once that was resolved I noticed that the truck suddenly had gotten very loud.

Here's why !
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Blew one right open and distorted the other. These are the mufflers that LMC includes with there stock replacement exhaust system, and only about 4-5 months old.

and here was my solution !

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Truck sounds so much better with Summit "Flow Masters".

The what did you do to your truck today thread was locked so I posted here !
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