I’m trying to take care of as many low cost things as I can on my to do list since I have a lot of free time right now. Up next is wiring up the electric choke conversion on my Quadrajet. I read Joe’s article below. I wanted to use the relay method since I have an oil pressure sending unit for gauges and not a switch for the dummy light. I don’t want to T both units into the oil pressure line and have a bunch of fittings and two switches, it would look to cluttered. I understand that if the belt brakes the choke will close and I’m okay with that. In the article I could not find a part number for the relay. Has anybody else done this, or does anybody know what relay would work? Thank you.

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Any 12v relay will work, Bosch 332019150 Relay is a good quality unit .

 

As Eric noted, many manufacturers make them and many parts stores have these. If you will mount this where it could get wet, consider one similar to .

 

Most of those generic relays are at least 30 amps, so they'll be fine. Heck, you can get a 5 pack of them on Amazon right now for $10, with the sockets.

 

Thanks for the responses, and thank you Joe for writing it up for everybody. I bought a waterproof one like VC455 linked to above. I plan to mount it on the fender forward of the horn relay close to the alternator.

 

To close this thread out I have completed my electric choke/relay harness. Total cost about $30. I bought the relay, some packard 59 terminals, ring terminals, in-line fuse holder and some harness tape. I reused some old wire harnesses for the wire and connectors. I didn’t want to cut into the existing harness to tie into the alternator field wire so I removed the terminal from the connector and made a completely removable inline adapter from two wires to one. I ran the fused power wire to the horn relay.

 

Nice