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Do you have a voltage gauge installed under the dash yet?
"Yet"? Some of us drive Darts and Valiants for years (or decades) without ever installing a voltmeter in, on, or under the dash.Quote:
Don't buy the resistor with the exposed coils. Get the fully potted version. Put a spacer/thick washer behind the support bracket to allow better cooling.
This advice is baseless and random. Most factory-installed (and Mopar service replacement) resistors have exposed coils, and no spacer washer, and they worked—and continue to work—just fine for many years. Quote:
I am trying to understand why you would have over 12 volts coming into the resistor that would cause it to burn up.
This is more confused advice. We have no specific or circumstantial indication that this guy's line voltage is over "12 volts" (which itself is lower than normal line voltage); that looks like a random guess on Ted's part. And high line voltage would not cause the ballast resistor to catch fire. It's difficult to imagine what would cause the ballast resistor to catch fire, since it's not made of combustible materials. If the ballast resistor is running too hot, something downstream of it (i.e., the ignition coil) is drawing too much current through it. 4x4jimbo: Thanks for the compliment on my beard!
I am ordinarily reasonably jolly, but I get cranky when I see someone (Ted, in this case) sending a guy with car trouble (you, in this case) off on goose chases with random, baseless guesses phrased in authoritative terms. Also, the difficulty you're having merits its own thread in the electrics section of the board; this present thread is about carburetor issues and repair.