Beats me. Im guessing the bolt worked loose causing stress on the non threaded portion.  I don’t know if the bolt was torqued properly by the previous TD owner, or Chevette owner for that matter.

Took me some more looking and a little rewiring and testing but think I have it all sorted out.

Path is such:

• Yellow wire (included in kit)  powers fuse box – 4 circuits that are always on – circuits are labeled Relay, BrakeSW,  Headlight, and HAZ/SPARA
• Fuse Box wire labeled “Power Feed Key Switch” goes from Fuse Box to ignition switch pin 3…

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What feeds the hot-ignition side of your fuse box?

(By memory; grain of salt) my car has battery + running to the big starter lug, Battery – bolted to the frame and feeding a grounding buss under the dash. Fat red 10g + wire from battery to the key switch at 30, then two wires that test + go from that. The key-on + wire goes to the fuse box to…[Read more]

So…I’ve learned a lot in this process.  One part of which is the cost of going cheap. I got a “WMPHE 12 Circuit Wiring Harness Universal Street Rod Wiring Harness 12 Fuses Standalone Wiring Harness” from Amazon for ~$50 and figured I’d rock and roll.

Gutted the pre-existing wiring and started mapping things out. Wires were labeled and color…[Read more]

Weird that it broke. Why would a pulley bolt break while just driving?

Update on broken pulley bolt.  Was able to extract the threaded portion of the bolt from the crankshaft. There’s a crankshaft spacer behind the timing gear on the crankshaft, and it had slid forward out of the engine block about 3/4 of its way out to prevent the timing sprocket from keying onto the crankshaft.  See the enclosed pics.

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Took longer than i expected to post these. Computer programs upgrade and change how everything works just as you get comfortable with them.

Anyway, the final photos of the upgrade.

The panel being finished.

The finished panel.

Didn’t turn out too bad. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough for who it’s for.

See you in Carlisle.

Bill, I am always amazed!!!!