Recent content by Amctavish77

All, thank you for the great tips and advice. I finally got around to yanking the battery out and realized it was 8 years old! And while it would hold a charge, there was no load capacity so long story short, new battery fixed the issue! I feel stupid overlooking something so obvious! Thank...

Hey guys, thanks for the response. The car currently has no headlights as I am waiting on a new switch (the one at the base of the steering column). The wafer on my switch was trashed. So, I haven’t hooked up the wiring for the lights to my alternator yet. I have turned the motor over with the...

Hi all, I have a ‘31 Tudor that’s all stock and I recently rewired it front to back with a kit from Mike’s. I’m still waiting on a headlight switch housing but I fired the car sans headlight/tail lights and it fired with no issues. Drove it all over the place a couple days later with no problems...

Tom: all the wiringin the headlight buckets look good, nothing fried, crossed, frayed, etc. I made a couple discoveries though; when the headlight switch is moved to any of the position, it’s seems to kill power to the whole car. If it’s in the off position, I have power everywhere however, the...

Nkaminar: thanks for the reply. This car is outfitted with a GM style alternator; does that make a difference of where I should be looking?

I have a ‘31 Tudor that I’m having an odd electrical issue on. A couple weeks back, the horn wires were removed from the back of the horn and inadvertently made contact with the headlight bucket resulting in fried horn and headlight wires; only about 6-8” of wiring was lost. But, it resulted in...

I’m losing power at the points. Got power at the terminal box, both sides of the coil and bottom plate of the distributor. Open the points, and I got nothing with and without the condenser (condenser is brand new too). Are the points toast or is there something else causing it?

Jumpered terminal box but nothing has changed. I did discover, I have voltage on either side of the fuse with the key in the off position but lose voltage when the key is in the on position. Seems weird or is that my issue. I’ve tested and swapped fuses so I know they’re good. But could the fuse...

Bob: yes, I do have power on both sides of the terminal box Marshall: I haven’t looked under cover of the term box but wires under the instrument panel look good; no chat whatsoever. I only lost about 6” of wire on the lights and the horn. I’ll pull the cover and report back.

Hi guys new here and thought I’d resurrect this thread since I’m having the same issue and have done all of the above with no success. A little backstory on this one; 1931 Model A Tudor all stock, ran like a champ until 2 weeks ago. Was cleaning it and apparently the two wires going into the...