Jacky Franklin's Journal

I have had an ongoing issue with my car's electrical for some time now and as the harness was original I have put off dealing with the intermittent loss of power to items. The temp gauge, the clock and the radio. Also the tach bouncing and the courtesy light have all mysteriously lost power ever so rarely.
I noticed a loose lug on my fuse block & upon a real close examination I found a BUNCH of loose rivets in the lug assemblies.
Ordered a new block which arrived and installed it today. This is not a hard job for me as I have a batt switch and just swapped the power side wires, removed the old block and shifted the outlet side wires to the new block, re-mounted with a piece of Garlock as an insulated spacer against the firewall.
All my power gremlins seem to be gone now and everything works real nice. This was a very necessary job and I don't think we know how loose these old rivets get nor how green the backside copper lap points. The fuse block cover from the original will not fit the replacements as sold. It is just a shade larger so the Lucas is too small to fit down around the fuses.
I suppose a real trooper would dip and retighten the rivets rather than not have a fuse block that says "Lucas" on the back and cover.


I'm good. Jack