During the body work phase, I managed to get her running, but not super well. She was having some ignition and fuel delivery issues. I spent some time and finally got to where she could rev, but the carbs still functioned at different rates, and she had the wrong carbs for the year. She had HIF's and not the HS carbs she came with. Wow carb prices have skyrocketed.
I spent a little time on the brakes and she was now stopping fairly well. In addition to this, I finally got rid of an air bubble in the clutch hydraulics that made her not like shifting.
At this point I took her to a body shop for a quick respray. She was fairly close, and I was pretty busy, so I sent it out.
I Kept the factory color, and did not bother respraying under the hood (This is meant to be a driver, not a show car). Getting her back to the house was a real pain, since the bodyshop did something to the car, and she will not even make a sound, even with a new battery. I am getting no voltage to the dash, or the ignition switch. I guess I will be redoing the new wiring sooner than I thought.
When I got her running, I found the previous owner did not know much about wiring, and he cut up the harness and spliced on different color and different sized wires throughout the harness. He also capped any wires he was unsure of. After wasting too many hours trying to find all of the old repairs, I called Moss and ordered a new harness.
The MOSS wiring kit for the GT was a decent kit, but it did not match the old system exactly. One thing I can say is I am shocked I drove the old car with no fires. The old harness has 45 years of horrible repairs and shorts and was just a miracle it ran. I found a major short (must have happened when the body shop was cranking it to start it. The ignition circuit was melted into one mass for about 6 inches (this must have smoked like crazy and the shop FORGOT to mention it to me. OOPS! They told me one day it just would not start and they thought it was the battery)
As I moved forward I chased the wiring, which is made interesting because one of the previous owners has been using old mismatched wire to make some of the sub harnesses, so none of the colors are correct, so I cannot just hook up GR to a GR or U to U, I am hooking up a GR to a PB, etc. What a pain. I did replace the turn signal switch and the reverse lights and brake lights are now working. I still cannot get the turn signals to work.....possibly the flasher module? One interesting part was the Turn signal/high beam switch. The lights were going from high to low on there own. This is what I found. Notice the custom wiring repair and just above it you can see where the pot metal has disintegrated due to shorts.
