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My wife hit it right on the nose this evening. She said Im thinking way too hard. Its a 1963 car. Shes so right. Just dont tell her i said that. lol. They always know best Your plan to splice into the 10B, and put a junction where one wire continues to the harness connector and the other goes to th...

Maybe this will help, here’s a couple photos of my main harness, with the splice for the power top. At first I thought it might be a PO doing this since it looked so ad-hoc but after looking more closely feel it was the factory installation for the power top. IMG_1101.jpeg IMG_1109.jpeg IMG_1110.jpeg

It’s spliced into the 10 AWG that comes directly from the regulator.

On mine, the yellow wire goes from the harness to the breaker, and then a yellow wire from the breaker to the top switch. Maybe start with unplugging the yellow wire at the panel and seeing if the breaker gets 12V hot?

Don’t know if this helps, but here are a couple photos of the top motor and breaker on my ‘63. You can see the black ground wire attaches to the mount, the red and yellow wires, which change to red and green after the plug shown in the photo, run through the tunnel under the vehicle and back up to u...

That’s nice! Especially since they don’t make the repros of the 556/557 any more and the battery compartment dimensions are so unique. Would love to have it for my ‘63, but at that $$$, needs to be saved for some senior concours show car. Original class. Maybe just as a dry battery installed once th...

Outstanding. Glad to hear you got it fixed

Outstanding work, looks great!

Outstanding! Color looks sharp John, congrats!

Some say drizzle some warm water mixed with tide or other laundry detergent into the fan while the engine is just warming up, keeping it at idle speed. And with the heater on high and hot. Never done this, but makes sense and may be worth a try.

Wow! That looks really nice

Does this help? From my ‘63 (still needed to bleed the lines)

Nice! That has to feel great, getting it back on the road.

Congrats!

Normal, one of the three is a larger 7/16” bolt

Are you sure your dwell meter is set to a 6 cyl engine? Setting it to 8 cyl would lower the reading.

Dwell reading is more accurate than the gap, since it actually shows how long the coil has to saturate.

I have a 1963 Monza. Anyone have any idea if there are holes for lap belts in the back somewhere under the seats or if I would have to drill them? Thanks, richard Unless your ‘63 had rear seat belts added by a dealer or aftermarket, there wouldn’t be holes. There should be dimples where the holes s...