Thanks Johnny! I'm in the process of gathering supplies for the re wire.
I do have a question though....

I'm the schematics, there are wires that come off in some instances that show an arrow and a single non boxed letter. Not the boxed double letters designated in the key.

For example, there is a 12 ga red wire coming off the 10 ga red wire going to the isolator from the generator.
This wire goes to X.

There is also a 16 ga org dbl blk wire coming off the front switch, going to R.

What am I missing?

Atom Ant wrote on Wed, 09 November 2016 12:54

Thanks Johnny! I'm in the process of gathering supplies for the re wire.
I do have a question though....

I'm the schematics, there are wires that come off in some instances that show an arrow and a single non boxed letter. Not the boxed double letters designated in the key.

For example, there is a 12 ga red wire coming off the 10 ga red wire going to the isolator from the generator.
This wire goes to X.

There is also a 16 ga org dbl blk wire coming off the front switch, going to R.

What am I missing?

On the schematic for mine, there is an arrow pointing down to an X and lower down the drawing there is an arrow pointing up to an X. I am sure that just means they didn't clutter up the drawing with a line all the way from one to the other.

If yours doesn't have another X or another R, your drawing must be incomplete.

And the other X is the power wire for the dash heat/AC blower high speed.

Chris commented... "Batteries should never be hooked up inside the passenger compartment as they off gas hydrogen while charging. One word? Hindenburg."

While I don't disagree, I wanted to note that in my '75 Avion the house battery stock location is in a metal box with a foam sealed lid, that is vented by an inch and a half diameter tube that exits less than a foot away behind the license plate.

Question: Is this stock arrangement dangerous?

Thank you!
Dave

OK, I think I understand the question now.
The item you are looking at we call a boost solenoid or boost relay.

First is the small terminals. One goes to the thin wire going to the boost switch on the dash and one goes to ground. The polarity is not important, so just wire one to the boost switch on the dash and the other one to engine battery ground. The aluminum plate where the relay/solenoid is mounted is connected to engine battery ground and that is where GM wired their's.

On the big terminals, which side you use there is also unimportant as long as you get the correct together wires on each side. (The three red on the right side of the diagram on one side, and the other two on the left side of the diagram on the other terminal.

One side is engine battery circuits and the other side is house battery circuits. They can not be mixed from side to side. I forget at the moment which side Gm used for which and my coach is not here for me to look at. It will not hurt which side you use for them as long as wires for the two sides are not mixed.

Clear as mud. right?

Ken Burton wrote on Fri, 11 November 2016 01:58

OK, I think I understand the question now.
The item you are looking at we call a boost solenoid or boost relay.

First is the small terminals. One goes to the thin wire going to the boost switch on the dash and one goes to ground. The polarity is not important, so just wire one to the boost switch on the dash and the other one to engine battery ground. The aluminum plate where the relay/solenoid is mounted is connected to engine battery ground and that is where GM wired their's.

On the big terminals, which side you use there is also unimportant as long as you get the correct together wires on each side. (The three red on the right side of the diagram on one side, and the other two on the left side of the diagram on the other terminal.

One side is engine battery circuits and the other side is house battery circuits. They can not be mixed from side to side. I forget at the moment which side Gm used for which and my coach is not here for me to look at. It will not hurt which side you use for them as long as wires for the two sides are not mixed.

Clear as mud. right?

I will add a few details that might make it a little clearer.

One large post is the house battery, one large post is the chassis battery, one small post is the power for the plunger (goes to the boost switch) and the other small post is the ground for the plunger.

Your schematic is different than mine, so I can only describe mine (which has one more wire on the house battery terminal).

The left side is the chassis battery side. One #4 red wire goes to the "battery pickup junction box" (where the power comes from the alternator through the isolator, through a #10 red wire to the battery pickup junction box, and charges the battery). One #4 red wire goes to the starter. One #4 red wire goes to the chassis battery.

The right side is the house battery side. One #10 red wire goes through a 50A fuse to the house battery bus bar. One #10 red wire goes to the isolator (to charge the house battery) and the #4 red wire goes to the house battery.