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Re: New Ownership, New member, Long road ahead. [message #358670 is a reply to message #354789]

Tue, 15 September 2020 12:13

Gurr

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Registered: May 2020
Location: Berkeley, CA

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Thanks for that Larry, I'll try doing that to get some pics up!

Good news! Figured it out. It happened to be the last of the three options. Luckily a buddy came by and that's what we started with (mainly because I forgot the old spark plug wires and I didn't want to take the steering wheel off again unless we knew what that wire went to). I'm still concerned with what that wiper contact controls. Looking at some of the wiring diagrams, it may be a pink wire up in the steering column or a red one. Tough to tell. Doesn't really matter at this point though.

We only found 1.2V going to ignition coil so we knew that we had to either wire the ignition coil to the battery or find where the issue was. What we had found was that hook that comes out of the bottom of the steering column was supposed to go to that key position switch under the dash. Previous "temporary owner" (PTO) pulled it off the column and fudged around with it a bit...pulling out the connectors, jamming them back in, folding some of the spade contacts...but the true culprit was that the ignition was never switched to the "on" position for starting! Once we changed the position we were getting 12V to the coil again. It seems a little strange that there was that 1.2V floating when the key was off though, no? Not sure what that's about.

It's actually pretty amazing that everything else is working with the condition it's in, the coil power wire has bare spots all over it, just waiting to short to the block. Can't wait to start tearing out all that old wiring and redoing it, there's years of accessory wires branching off everywhere not going to anything in particular. I should probably make sure none of those are going to ground out as well.

Currently the motorhome is in a gravel lot on Treasure Island, gotta get it off before the 17th to avoid paying another month! It's also a little sad, I'm gonna miss it there.

- Gurr

1973 GMC Motorhome. Obtained from the brink of destruction 05/15/2020 in the middle of the night. Berkeley, CA

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