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Old 11-06-2015, 03:59 PM
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I stupidly just took pictures as I took the electrical apart. I really should have labelled each wire or connector. Some of my pics aren't usable (and ever since I upgraded to Android 6.0 I've had weird issues).

Pictured is a Danchuk switch that was in my car and worked fine as well the new Lectric Limited VMA5861 harness. Can someone post a really good pic or diagram for a '61? I have the pdf for the 1960 switch but there isn't a matching connector in the harness.
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Originally Posted by johngammel
I stupidly just took pictures as I took the electrical apart. I really should have labelled each wire or connector. Some of my pics aren't usable (and ever since I upgraded to Android 6.0 I've had weird issues).

Pictured is a Danchuk switch that was in my car and worked fine as well the new Lectric Limited VMA5861 harness. Can someone post a really good pic or diagram for a '61? I have the pdf for the 1960 switch but there isn't a matching connector in the harness.
The referenced VMA5861 harness is the under the dash harness w. fusebox. This harness does not have the ignition switch connector.The connector for the ignition switch is on ignition engine harness VIG5862M.
The connector, a 3 prong one is wrapped in black tape and is beige color..

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Here is a photo from my 61..

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Here is a photo from my 61..

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Here is a pic of the LL Ignition Harness for my '60.

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Some dash harness connections

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Awesome - it's sitting in the engine compartment with part of it shoved thru the firewall. What I'm going to do is start a single thread and put all of my experiences in it. I am interested in where you got these pictures because I'd like to get the entire set.

I'm going to try to put this all in one new post.

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Here is a couple of pics from my 61.
I did an article on dash R & R with pictures if you can use it.
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Originally Posted by johngammel
Awesome - it's sitting in the engine compartment with part of it shoved thru the firewall. What I'm going to do is start a single thread and put all of my experiences in it. I am interested in where you got these pictures because I'd like to get the entire set.

I'm going to try to put this all in one new post.
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I cleaned up a document I had done after we rewired our '60. It's fairly complete. The pics were part of that document.

I don't know how much might be different for the '61 but I imagine they are similar.

The new PDF is attached.
Hope it is useful. BTW if you (or any other viewers) find anything I may have mislabeled, please let me know so that I can correct it.

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Originally Posted by plaidside

Is that a stray piece of wire hanging off of the bottom of the nut on the right side ammeter terminal? Looks like it's touching the ammeter case.

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