Posted by Mark in Santa Cruz [188.114.110.199] on Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 01:31:27 :
Greetings,
As I type this message, I am sitting alone self-quarantining listening to the waves crash onto the beach in Santa Cruz CA.
A neighbor of mine had a medical emergency so I ran over to assist without thinking or any PPE (an acronym that I have never heard of before COVID-19). My neighbor had been hospitalized recently so since I have a 10 week-old son, my wife wouldn't let me back into the house & basically kicked me out for two weeks. Fortunately, I ended up in an unused vacation home on the ocean; every cloud has a silver lining I guess. Onto the real point of this post....
I purchased an Dodge D.U.I HEI Distributor from Performance Distributors which requires a switched power source of 12V on a 10 gauge wire during CRANK and RUN.
The installation instructions suggest to run this wire from a switched fuse on the fuse box.
However, I emailed Performance Distributors because the W200 switched side of the fuse box isn't hot on START/CRANK (at least my ignition switch isn't) and the battery feed wire to the ignition switch is 12 gauge as is the IGN fuse box feed wire. So a 10 gauge wire from the fuse box to the distributor would be hamstrung by the 12 gauge wires feeding it.
Performance Distributors responded and is recommending that I "Run that wire from the starter solenoid. There should be a post there that is hot in the CRANK and RUN position."
I haven't crawled under the truck to take a closer look, but is anyone aware of solenoid post that is hot in the CRANK and RUN position on a '71 W200? I don't see how this is possible from a cursory look at the '71 W200 electrical wiring diagram.
Has anyone else installed one of these single wire Dodge D.U.I HEI Distributors from Performance Distributors? If so, I would be curious from where you pulled the power for the distributor.
Thx,
Mark
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