Ok that makes better sense now. I’ll dump the wire, less work. It’s just a path of continuity between devices not necessarily a path to battery negative.
This is the firing point of the MSD errrr duraspark, right? I should know this but lazy and asking right meow. That’s where I clamped the dist and 15* BTDC. #1 wound up closer to 6 o’clock than 8 so the wires will lay slightly counterclockwise from a nice 9&3 o’clock pattern. 1 tooth throws it off towards 10 o’clock.
Doesn’t look like much but there’s hours and hours back and forth, planning, running wires, confirming where they lay, taping, looming and fabricating terminals etc.
4 way firewall connector.
Fished the terminals through then snapped the body on
Completed duraspark harness. Began with a painless kit that I tailored to the truck. Worked out in my favor, there’s 2 coil + wires so people can rig up a start bypass and resistor run position. I’m utilizing factory wiring so only one wire needed. The secondary wire works as my carb cheater key 12v 😎 Electric fan temp sensor, engine oil temp and trans temp included in this bundle with a split for carb cheater tach.
Utilized the throttle bracket boss for choke ground and loom clamp
Head light relays mounted behind turn signal
CC has 3 extra wires. 2 of which (orange) are relay triggers and the white is “future expansion”. To save these extra wires, I doubled them back on themselves, taped and wrapped in split loom. They will be secured to firewall with the other harness runs. Also note the new and complete charge/starter cable wrapped in red/black
O2 sensor is installed with the clamp-on bung for now since I plan to change up the exhaust to 2.5”.
Engine bay wiring nearly finished. Hell of a lot of work. Most of it I’m happy with. Some just looks like ass no matter how hard I try.
