Bypass or remove the resistor wire?

xMAJORx · Post by **xMAJORx** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:50 pm

Im stalling an accel breakerless dist. and coil. The instructions say to remove, or bypass the resistor wire. How do I do that? What does the resistor look like?

Before I put the new engine in the truck it had a points conversion kit on it.

What's the best way to do this? I'm not a wiring guy.

mljjones67 · Post by **mljjones67** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:59 pm

Dont know, but that is a good looking engine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xMAJORx · Post by **xMAJORx** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:20 pm

Thank you, it's eaten my last dime!

mljjones67 · Post by **mljjones67** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:31 pm

yeah but what a trade off!!!

lrjetmech · Post by **lrjetmech** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:05 am

The resistor wire is a pink (yes, pink) wire coming off your ignition switch. It goes over to a connector that goes out to your coil, along with your oil pressure and coolant temp wires. I had to remove this wire when I installed my Pertronix II system!

heep70 · Post by **heep70** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:12 am

I bypassed mine putting the Petronix in. Just ran another wire from the same plug space as the resistor wire off the ignition plug. In case I needed to switch back to points.

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xMAJORx · Post by **xMAJORx** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:41 am

Can I just remove that wire? Or do I have to bypass it?

Isn't there another resistor wire?

xMAJORx · Post by **xMAJORx** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:30 pm

Here are some pics. I don't see a pink wire going into the ignition. But I do see one that leads to panel light just above my parking brake.

spartman · Post by **spartman** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:42 pm

I don;t know about your truck but on mine the resistor wire was right behind the instrument cluster.

It had a bullet style connector on it that connected to a green wire with a red stripe on it.

The wire also had stamped on it "resistor wire"

Hope this helps

xMAJORx · Post by **xMAJORx** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:19 pm

I still can't see the resistor wire. Does anyone have a pic of one?

spartman · Post by **spartman** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:47 pm

I don't right now but Like I said if you take your instrument panel out it should be right there.

I will try to snap a pic tonight for ya

xMAJORx · Post by **xMAJORx** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:15 pm

heep70 wrote:I bypassed mine putting the Petronix in. Just ran another wire from the same plug space as the resistor wire off the ignition plug. In case I needed to switch back to points.

Which ignition plug? The one that comes out of the firewall? Or at the key cylinder?

We really need a tutorial about this.

I was think of just running a wire from the battery to a toggle to the coil.

Post by **FORDification** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:49 pm

Here are a couple closeup pics of the resistor wire. Notice how it's specially marked as such.

I wouldn't remove it, just by-pass it, in case you ever decide to reinstall the points.

lrjetmech · Post by **lrjetmech** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:08 pm

xMAJORx wrote:
I was think of just running a wire from the battery to a toggle to the coil.

When I installed my Pertronix II, I ran a new wire from the solenoid to the center of the dash; made a two-way splice; ran one of the wires over to the ignition switch to replace the pink resistor wire and the other one out to the coil. I replaced the wiring because mine was kinda ragged, plus the Pertronix II instructions said to remove the resistor wire to make sure the module got a full 12V!

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