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Licensed to kill · 11-08-2018, 07:04 PM

So, I'll save you all the boring details and just say that I am rewiring my truck. For now, i am not doing any wiring for lights, gauges and the like, only what it need to start and run. My question is, was there/should there be a fuse box on these trucks?.

JSeery · 11-08-2018, 07:17 PM

Only on the lighting circuits (if your talking original). It's not really a fuse "box", it is a panel with one fuse and the ingition ballast resistor. The "hot" terminal on the panel is the connection for most of the wiring including the ingition. Do you have the wiring diagram?

Licensed to kill · 11-08-2018, 09:59 PM

I have "A" wiring diagram. The truck came with new wiring harnesses which contain a wiring diagram. The one harness has the lighting switch on it but i am not using that one yet. The other, which contains the same diagram has a harness without the switch but I have yet to be able to identify what it is for exactly. So, I am just wiring up the necessary circuits to start and run the engine. The diagram shows a "fuse panel". Going by memory here, I have a hot going to one side of the starter button, other side to the starter solenoid. A hot going to one side of the ignition switch (on the side of the steering column) and the other side of the ignition switch to the coil but I think I also need the down stream side of the ignition switch going to the voltage regulator. My thinking is that when the ignition switch is turned on, it supplies power to the coil and the voltage regulator (I left all of the other wires from the regulator to the generator in tact for now). Turn on the ignition switch, hit the start button and it should go........yes?......no?.

JSeery · 11-08-2018, 10:12 PM

The battery connects to the floor mounted starter switch. From there a hot wire passes through the ammeter to the always hot terminal of the fuse/resistor panel. There is a wire from this hot terminal to the ignition switch and then back to the ballast resistor on the fuse panel and then to the coil. There is a wire from the generator cutout to this same hot terminal on the fuse/resistor panel. I can draw up a 35 diagram if you need it.

Edit: I remove a diagram I had drawn, it was labeled as 36, but it was actually 37 and it was just confusing. I added a diagram that I did NOT draw up.

Licensed to kill · 11-08-2018, 10:31 PM

Thanks. The first pic is the diagram I have. I have not found a ballast resistor or a fuse panel anywhere. The wiring was a mess and used a push pull switch on the dash for the lights. I will be going back to the original steering mounted light switch. I'll look again in the morning but there was no resistor in the coil wire that I found.

Don Rogers · 11-08-2018, 11:22 PM

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Here is a 35 wiring diagram for a pickup or passenger car. I have also included an image of the fuse block and resistor that should be mounted on the inside of the firewall behind the dash.

Hope this helps.

Tinker · 11-09-2018, 12:10 AM

You can wire it anyway you want and it'll be fine. Maybe forget everything that is wired currently and think stock?

If your asking, to go with a original electrical wiring there are threads.

11-08-2018, 07:04 PM	#1
Licensed to kill Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Alberta Posts: 930	Wiring on my '35 truck So, I'll save you all the boring details and just say that I am rewiring my truck. For now, i am not doing any wiring for lights, gauges and the like, only what it need to start and run. My question is, was there/should there be a fuse box on these trucks?.

11-08-2018, 07:17 PM	#2
JSeery Member Emeritus Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Wichita KS Posts: 16,132	Re: Wiring on my '35 truck Only on the lighting circuits (if your talking original). It's not really a fuse "box", it is a panel with one fuse and the ingition ballast resistor. The "hot" terminal on the panel is the connection for most of the wiring including the ingition. Do you have the wiring diagram?

11-08-2018, 09:59 PM	#3
Licensed to kill Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Alberta Posts: 930	Re: Wiring on my '35 truck I have "A" wiring diagram. The truck came with new wiring harnesses which contain a wiring diagram. The one harness has the lighting switch on it but i am not using that one yet. The other, which contains the same diagram has a harness without the switch but I have yet to be able to identify what it is for exactly. So, I am just wiring up the necessary circuits to start and run the engine. The diagram shows a "fuse panel". Going by memory here, I have a hot going to one side of the starter button, other side to the starter solenoid. A hot going to one side of the ignition switch (on the side of the steering column) and the other side of the ignition switch to the coil but I think I also need the down stream side of the ignition switch going to the voltage regulator. My thinking is that when the ignition switch is turned on, it supplies power to the coil and the voltage regulator (I left all of the other wires from the regulator to the generator in tact for now). Turn on the ignition switch, hit the start button and it should go........yes?......no?.

11-08-2018, 10:31 PM	#5
Licensed to kill Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Alberta Posts: 930	Re: Wiring on my '35 truck Thanks. The first pic is the diagram I have. I have not found a ballast resistor or a fuse panel anywhere. The wiring was a mess and used a push pull switch on the dash for the lights. I will be going back to the original steering mounted light switch. I'll look again in the morning but there was no resistor in the coil wire that I found.

11-09-2018, 12:10 AM	#7
Tinker Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: MN Posts: 7,053	Re: Wiring on my '35 truck You can wire it anyway you want and it'll be fine. Maybe forget everything that is wired currently and think stock? If your asking, to go with a original electrical wiring there are threads.