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I have owned a 1971 Cutlass Supreme for over ten years now. Its triple black and has power everything. The car spent the 1990's as a drag car. I just pulled it out of storage, where it has been for the past 4 years, and I have some serious electrical issues with it. The positive wire that comes off the ignition coil started smoking when I started it up last. The wire burned all the way to the fuse box. I was just wondering if anyone on this forum has replaced a wire out of the fuse box, if so I would appreciate some advice.
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Welcome to the site! I'm glad your car didn't catch fire when it happened, have you identified where the short was? I've not changed wires out of the fuse box before, hopefully someone here has and can help. If you don't get a respose here try posting again under the electrical forum. John
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From: Rural Waxahachie Texas
It sounds like your distributor is damaged or the points were shorting the 12 volts to ground (which they actually are supposed to do but only momentarily). Here is an image that kinds of explains it. If your points are rusted/welded closed in some way or the distributor cam is not moving the points and they are in a closed position then they could be permanently closed, hence the short.
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welcome to site also new to site the guys are awsome about olds so any questions they sure can help i also know of about 3 parts cars in calhan so if your car needs something let me know the guy has 3000 cars so let me know if ant thing you need thanks
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