Born To Travel wrote:
Another thing those late 70s Mopars were famous for was the ballast resistors going bad.. . Back then everyone carried a spare in the glovebox.. To test it unplug both ends and take a ohm meter and check the lower one from end to end and the upper one from end to end.. If either reads open then it is bad.. One side is the start circuit and the other side is the run circuit..
Our old 1977 Dodge went through 2 of these. We kept one in the glovebox after that also. I checked mine by using a small nail we had with us to bypass the resister. It started right up, so we called the closest auto parts store and they had 2 of them. Bought both. Lucky we did!!! The second one is still probably gong strong.
This was the only time the old motor home stranded us. We had to have some carb work done and we just always had issues with re-starting after it was warm.
Good luck!!!
