>Hey Joe,
>
> I after a couple of hours, I noticed that the fuse panel would loose all
> power and then after about 5 min or so it would have full power again.
> It keeps on doing this right now. Is there a relay that is shutting it
> down and reseting?
No, I'd suspect a bad connection at the battery, or a shorting cell in the
battery itself. These cars had only a very few circuits constantly energized, most
everything else with the key in "run"
The fusebox is like a switchboard, it's a simple thing.
I think, you are getting interrupted flow to the fusebox.
Can you go by a auto parts chain store and have them load test your battery
to eliminate it as the problem?
> The fella who had the car before me wired up a electric trunk release, It is
> the factory button but he defiently did not use factory wiring. I have cut out
> the wiring under the dash due to all the splicing and guess what, I DONT HAVE
> CONSTANT POWER ANY MORE!!! It has power at the key like it is suppose to.
> Yeah for ME!!! And thanks to you.
The trunk lock solenoid was one of the constantly energized circuits, sounds
like he tapped it for other circuits. (and shouldn't have)
Do you know how to wire up the trunk release button propperly?
Yep.
> Take alook at the pictures I have included and let me know if you know where this
> wire goes or is it an accessory for something else.
In the first one, orange/black/white, was used for the power antenna relay, but
that's an informed guess - did the car have a power antenna?
> Also the interior lights under the dash were spiced have to hell and back so I
> was wondering if they even belonged in this car. Can you let me know.
Courtesy lights... you'd need the Build sheet, or PHS docs to know for sure.
> These three wires were running to the passengers side of the car but were spliced
> multiple times, I cut them back to the original harness, can you see the colour of
> hte wires and try to figure out what they are or how to test them.
The brown/orange connector on the drivers side is a radio feed for digital clock
and digital display option. It might not have been used.
> I forgot to mention that someone somewhere changed the speedo cluster. It is a 1978.
> I learned this from a earlier post. Does this make things harder for me with that
> open slot in the board. Do I have to wire it up or can I leave it empty and have no
> astray light?
No, not harder. You can leave it empty, maybe later you'll get back to it.
> I now noticed that I have no power to the rear defrost also. It was on a constant power
> before and the light came on when activated. I doesnt do anything now?
Because I think the guy before patched that and other circuits into a always
"hot" line, which I believe was the Deck lid line.
Electric defrost needs to be on a "run" only line as it would be a big draw.
How we doing?
Joe