Almost lost Dana (my C500) last night, fixed her, video and pic update; pg.3

[Winga]

    Troy,..........it's good to see your car ( Dana? ) back "on the road" to recoverery!.............yes it could have been worst!, let it be a leason in building, or maintaining your present car(s)...........It's well worth the lousy $800-$1000 to replace the underdash, engine harness, light forward harness.and  rear harness, with a quality product from M&H electrics (via Year One only.........exclusive licsence/ trademark) versus the thousands of dollars, or possible life that you may lose!..................30+ year old wiring, low mileage, or in the box NOS, is inferior to the quality of todays manufactured wire, and related products,....................but you see it all the time, thousands spent on engines, body,paint, interiors,etc........but junkyard, partscar, or original wiring still intact..........spend the mony, be safe,.........a common mistake a lot of guys make is in the alternator, by adding an alternator capable of 80-125 amps, the factory voltage regulator design, and ampmeter are designed to opperate at 60 amps or less,.............if you want a higher amp alt, design/rewire the car to handle it,............................also rebuilt alternaters,.........most rebuilders are replacing the pulleys with a smaller diameter, this is fine for street crusers, but high rpm, highway driving now maxes the output of the alternater, taxing your electrical system,.................promaster now has New Resto line of alternaters,with new castings!new internals,NOS appearing, not rebuilt crap! alternators for around $100.............cheap! .......and with a correct sized pulley, to avoid excessive overcharging, and another great update, would be the Pertronix conversion, everything fits under the stock distrbutor cap, don't cheap out buy the recommended flamethower coil, and should you decide to return to point(s), everything screws back together!..................................Good Luck Troy! in getting ..........ahh........Dana? back on the road

[hemi68charger]

here are some progress pics from this morning......

Dash harness in place and the dash cluster all buttoned up with new amp-2-volt gauge......

Sorry,,, Had to use the hemi as background............   

[Winga]

looking good....................................................................................Troy!

[69_500]

Hey Troy, looks like Dana will be back up and running before you know it.

[hemi68charger]

Well, got her up and running last night......... Didn't take her for a spin, but she's running nonetheless..... I'll take her out tonight after work maybe........

Here's an engine pic and video (my 1st).. Sorry for being at night............

Dana fired up video

Troy

[mikepmcs]

So who was the big winner on Wheel Of Fortune??

Great video by the way, Dana sounds great!! Glad to see it fixed with minimum damage it appears too.

v/r
Mike

[hemi68charger]

So who was the big winner on Wheel Of Fortune??

Great video by the way, Dana sounds great!! Glad to see it fixed with minimum damage it appears too.

v/r
Mike

Thanks Mike............ Ahhhhhhhhh, Wheel of Fortune? Are you referring to my luck at the lack of damage?

[mikepmcs]

No it sounded like that's what was on the TV in the background.

But I like your answer better.

v/r
Mike

[PocketThunder]

Awe man Troy, after watching that video and hearing that exhaust and seeing those taillights.... I'm stoked!  I have no more excuses but to get my car going this summer. 

Was that a TDC registry shirt?  What happend to the dash lights?

[hemi68charger]

Awe man Troy, after watching that video and hearing that exhaust and seeing those taillights.... I'm stoked!  I have no more excuses but to get my car going this summer. 

Was that a TDC registry shirt?  What happend to the dash lights?

They work fine..... Just that the lighting sucked and my little camera/video doesn't do a good job when there's low-lighting in video-mode.......... I'll take another one if I can with me driving her..... In the daylight...  The shirt I believe was one of my Mopar Collector Guide shirts........  That's right, no excuse !!!!  Your '68's done now.................. 

Troy

[tan top]

thats great Troy getting  Dana running    sounds good .  would like to see more video of DANA  .........

[hemigeno]

That's great Troy, I know you're relieved!



Have you figured out what was keeping your dash lights from working?  Hope it's something simple.

**Edit**  Just read your earlier reply and saw that the dash lights are OK - that's good...  I'm too slow at the keyboard first thing in the morning I suppose. 

[tan top]

HMMM.... probably the dash dimmer switch   

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Lookin good man!   Im glad you got her going.....I havent looked at mine in 3 months

[duo-stripe]

Troy,
Nice to hear her running again. Happily nothing really bad happened to the car and that it was a relatively easy fix ( relatively )

Greetz Marcel

[69_500]

Congrats Troy, you just made me go down stairs open up the garage and fire up my 500. Which is the first its been started since October.