The Black Beasty - 1970 GT6+

   I was able to trace it through the p.o.'s repair attempts, and found it went directly to the ignition switch. Now why would he have done that? And why do the turn signals come on with the ignition?  Well after digging around under the dash, and unwrapping all the tape on the harness from the fuse block, to lower firewall exist (for the engine compartment and alternator harness section), and all the wiring going to the ignition switches I found the problem.

  apparently the p.o. had hooked something up (a high power stereo?) directly to the BROWN ckt at the ignition switch. It had melted the main large gauge BROWN wire running up through the harness, out through the fuse block grommet, and all the way over to the starter solenoid. I had to un-wrap the entire harness, from the ignition switch, all the way to the solenoid to repair the 16 some melted wires that the brown wire had shorted to.    Again, luckily I had a full spare harness from which to scavenge wires from to repair the original harness.  

      I got so sick of running around between the firewall and under the dash, I finally just took the door off completely to simplify things.  In the photos, all the black stuff on the floor is a pile of old harness wrapping.  Apparently the spare harness I had is from a later model car as the brown wire was MUCH heavier in that harness then what was in this GT6.

   My trusty stock pile of old gauges came in handy here too as the speedo was frozen solid (that explains the busted speedo cable)  So I ended up pulling a few apart to make one good one, while still maintaining the right ratios and odo readings.

    Even the emergency flasher switch had been 'mangled' by the p.o. It took me nearly three hours to finally figure out he had disassembled the switch (to clean the contact?) and had re-assembled it incorrectly.

  So after being happy that I had repaired ALL the wires effected by the meltdown (as well as few others...since I was there) I re-wrapped the entire mess, tucking it up neatly under the dash, and adding a few 'correct' bullet connectors as needed.

    Well what would you expect from an electronics engineer. If MY cars electrical were not in perfect working shape I'd never hear the end of it.