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Originally Posted by Redmanbob
Use a set of cables, put the neg/pos on the batt and neg on the starter housing. Tap the starter post with pos lead..nada.. its shot! If the battery explodes your under the vehicle 
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No not yet, it seems work often gets in the way of more important stuff. I'm off again Thursday/Friday .... maybe I'll get time to look at it a little more. I think I may have a larger problem up under the dash, I don't seem to have any hot wires at the fuse bus so I guess I've got to start tracing back and I've also got to try to find a decent wireing diagram.
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(0) hot wires at the fuse box ? big time ground issue or, inline main fuse.. probably (B)
you did reconnect the battery terminals and other stuff again ?
http://www.tocmp.com/tOCMP/wiring/1964F100/index.htm
you did reconnect the battery terminals and other stuff again ?
http://www.tocmp.com/tOCMP/wiring/1964F100/index.htm
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Yeah, although it's not impossible for me to forget to reconnect the battery (sometimes even likely!) I believe it was connected. I have located an entire under the dash harness which should be here in a couple of days, it's a little different ... later model?... but I think I can use it. The original harness has been spliced several times and so there are many places for potential problems. Hopefully when I'm off, I can start fresh and not be tired from work or easily frustrated and get somewhere. We've just gone thru something similar with my son's '79 MGB and it's just a matter of looking til you find it and taking a break when you get frustrated.
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"Here/here", I just finished up most of it on my old cuddy cabin boat.. I know what you meen... I would gladly have paid someone to "just deal with it!!!" LOL and it's nothing like automotive..
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Well now that you mention it, I've got an old sailboat that I can't get any of the running lights to work on. I'm a large guy and it seems that boat, car, or truck they like to run those wires through tight little spaces where I can put either one eye or one hand so that I can never see what I'm doing or do what I'm seeing.
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I'll say this again jnsprigg, It really sounds as simple as your ignition switch. If I'm not mistaken the fuse box will not have anything hot until the ignition is turned on....right? Don't be intimidated by the wiring, if need be list your colors you need identified and I'll look them up for you. I had to do alot of un-hacking on my P.O.J to get it operating like Henry wanted it to.
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I'll say this again jnsprigg, It really sounds as simple as your ignition switch. If I'm not mistaken the fuse box will not have anything hot until the ignition is turned on....right? Don't be intimidated by the wiring, if need be list your colors you need identified and I'll look them up for you. I had to do alot of un-hacking on my P.O.J to get it operating like Henry wanted it to.
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I thought there should be a hot wire at the fuse bus, but I didn't feel qualified to argue. There is a heavy guage black wire that goes to a brass plate which some of the fuses (or all I can't remember) seem to be set on. Would this be the hot wire? I do know it's not hot now.
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In most cases black is Negative. Red Positive. The large black wire is probably the grounding to the fuse box. Without a visual ? Could be somebody got in there and made it all pretty like... 
Could be somebody got in there and made it all pretty like...
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From: Island Southeast Alaska
Originally Posted by Redmanbob
I wanted someone else to confirm it, but yep thats where the dome light gets it power aint it ?