John S's Journal

I decided to look into why my flash-to-pass wasn’t working and hasn’t since I got the car. My original thought was the stalk switch might be funky but after poking my head under the dash, I saw a severed purple wire in the main harness. The bad news was that it was cut at the very back of the rubber connector with no way to solder it. At this point I had nothing to lose so I figured that I could find a drill bit that would go through the center of the female bullet connection on the main harness connector and ream out the old severed bit of wire. My plan was to find a purple wire with a bullet end in my stash and see if I could run that through the reamed out channel whereby the bullet end would make contact within the metal tube. I had to run the drill around a bit to allow the wire to poke through the back and also needed to grind down the bullet end so that I could pull it back far enough into the metal tube and still allow the male end from the stalk harness plug to mate up. A little trial an error and all that was left to do was trim the other end, nip a bit of insulation off both purple wires, slip some heat shrink on and solder it up.
Works a treat!

I was hoping to use the horn center push cap from my ‘70 roadster and convert over to a stalk for that year to have the horn on the end of the stalk but decided to use the original horn push for the ‘71. Replaced the horn brush but wasn’t activating the horns so today was the day to look into that. I have reused the relay setup from my ‘70 and the headlight relays are fine but the horn relay has been untested. I don’t know whether the relay isn’t working but after messing around with it for awhile I finally just bypassed it and got one horn working. Not sure what the issue is yet but something is amiss. Tested both horns individually and had to adjust the passenger side horn until it came on. Wiring seems amiss so there is more to do. Before putting the car back in the garage, I decided to take it out for a short spin and enjoy the weather before it turns later today. Getting some waves, thumbs up and comments the last couple times out. Makes all the work getting it to this stage all the more worthwhile.