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EFV-8 Club Forum / 1940 Ford Discussion / '40 Ford wiring schematic question

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05-25-2021 @ 12:54 PM

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Here is the wiring and schematic diagrams for the instrument panel note the TWO B/G wires on the temperature gauge one of the two goes to the ignition switch, the second goes to the battery indicator.

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05-23-2021 @ 10:19 AM

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You have the correct number of wires attached to the circuit breaker. The other end of one of the wires must go to the ignition switch as the ring is only hot when the switch is on.

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05-22-2021 @ 5:39 PM

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OK, here goes...

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05-22-2021 @ 8:49 AM

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Take a picture with your phone, send it to yourself in an email, then drag the picture from your "opened" email over to your desktop. Open the "Forum" to your reply and drag the picture in. That's works on my Mac, if you have Bill Gates Crappy Operating System, I wouldn't know how that works.

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05-21-2021 @ 6:26 PM

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Kurt,
Thanks for sharing the interesting discovery that your original '40 wiring has the same anomaly. It sure seems odd that Ford would have built cars with hot wires hanging out in mid air under the dash like that with no protection from a short. Makes me wonder what they had in mind for them. The factory supplied wiring diagrams sure don't show them. I wonder if anyone else with a '40 has seen the same thing?

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05-21-2021 @ 1:44 PM

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put my head under the dash on my 40 tudor org wireing and I see right behind the cluster the same two to one wire that you show and it not connected to anything.

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05-21-2021 @ 11:22 AM

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still trying...

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05-21-2021 @ 11:19 AM

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photos didn't come thru - trying to resend...

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TomO,

Circuit breaker photos attached...

My cigar lighter does not work/not connected - just have the knob in place for looks. It is located on the right side of the radio and the double wire connection in question doesn't reach it - it exits the main dash harness to the left of the radio and the leads are very short. As mentioned previously, this double wire setup is hot when the ignition switch is flipped to ON, so it must power something important, but what??

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05-21-2021 @ 8:27 AM

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Can you post a photo of the circuit breaker? That wire looks like it may belong on the circuit breaker.

Does your cigar lighter work?

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