I walk twice a day, about 4 km's each walk. I do some very good thinking when I walk. I just got back. I was only about 3 blocks from home on my way out for my walk and I did one of those DUH forehead-smacks.....
I wired the relays for a new style power antenna that uses two wires and the polarity reverses for up or down. This 1966 antenna is grounded, you power one wire for up, other wire for down. I haven't even gone into the garage to check but I know that's the problem!
What a rookie mistake.....
All I need to do is snip or remove one wire on each relay and it will work perfect.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Seemed strange that a 14 gauge feed wasn't able to power it. It would have had to be a motor or drive issue.
Isn't it great when it comes to you!
I know, that is what was bothering me so much. If it worked for GM for years and years, why didn't it work now? And of course the antenna worked perfect when I unplugged the harness in the trunk and ran jumpers from a battery because I knew to ground the antenna and power one wire for up or the other wire for down. When I tested it I knew it wasn't reverse polarity but when I wired the relays my brain was stuck on reverse polarity. I guess the joys of senior moments?
Anyway, nap time is over, it's off to the garage to right my wrong!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Good grief, my Youtube video is blocked due to copyrighting. I guess Burton Cummings must be mad at me for the music that was one when I did the video....
I was constantly getting strikes on here with our ad provider thanks to a non intellegent AI thinking we had offensive content. I was constantly appealing their decisions.
It's only going to get worse as more and more companies rely in this technology.
In prep for Rebushing the 2GV, I cleaned up the original base from the 1969 carb that Randy gave me. It actually has less shaft play than the one currently in the car.
Ordered this kit from amazon. I'll have enough bushings to do 4 - 2GV's or 4 - QJ's on the primary's. They apparently share the same 5/16 shaft and .335 shaft bore.
As found,
After glass bead blasting,
.. and after some high temp engine enamel and aluminum silver,
I plan on gun blueing the throttle plates and shaft to prevent corrosion. Any other thoughts on this. Paint just won't work here.
Thanks for flipping the picture. The Holley system is supposed to be self learning after entering some parameters before start up but well see how well that works, Im sure there will be some tweaking involved.
Im still learning but I have downloaded some software to my laptop and there seems to be no end to the kind of changes that can be made to the base tune, fun times ahead lol. All else fails and I will book a dyno/tune session.
I have been resistant to LS swaps but I have one car that I might consider it for. Many of the drag racers in my area swear by the LS, with the 5.3 being very popular.
I'm amazed at how capable a motor the LS is. The HP it can make before disintegration is crazy. Even the plain jane stock motors can be really leaned on up to insane levels.
Seems GM really got that design right, and the aftermarket is taking it further.
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
Started working on the power lock setup for my Grande Parisienne today. So far I have both actuators mounted in the doors and the wiring harness strung across the under dash going to each door.
The actuators are GM 80's style, easy to find, easy to adapt to the earlier cars and easy to replace if one of them happens to go bad. The relay (a polarity reversing style relay) is also from a mid 80's GM. It's even simpler to use that than to use 2 of the common parts store 5 pin relays. The GM unit has a total of 5 wires to hook up. 12 volt live, an "up" input wire from the switches, a "down" input wire from the switches, an "up" output to the actuators and a "down" output to the actuators.
The 1966 door lock assembly already has a tab with a hole in it that is not being used (maybe because it's the same as the US full size 1966 Pontiacs which had available vacuum actuators for power locks?). At any rate, it's as simple as making a little rod from the actuator to that tab on the lock and then mount the actuator with the bracket and screws from the donor vehicle.
I'm thinking for anyone putting a late model power antenna into a classic and wants to keep the stock power antenna switch on the dash, one of these would work perfect.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
The power locks are all done except for cutting the door panels to mount the switches. Next phase will be the power vent windows, thanks to the generosity of JohnneeD. I've had so many sets of those that I've sold over the years and now that I needed a set I couldn't find any. JD came to the rescue, he had a pair of gearboxes for the power vents. I made up a harness, bought a reproduction driver's side switch (dual toggle switch) and next step is to install them. The sky is the limit for power options on this car..... As Buzz Lightyear said in Toy Story, "To infinity and beyond"!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
The power locks are all done except for cutting the door panels to mount the switches. Next phase will be the power vent windows, thanks to the generosity of JohnneeD. I've had so many sets of those that I've sold over the years and now that I needed a set I couldn't find any. JD came to the rescue, he had a pair of gearboxes for the power vents. I made up a harness, bought a reproduction driver's side switch (dual toggle switch) and next step is to install them. The sky is the limit for power options on this car..... As Buzz Lightyear said in Toy Story, "To infinity and beyond"!!!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
The power locks are all done except for cutting the door panels to mount the switches. Next phase will be the power vent windows, thanks to the generosity of JohnneeD. I've had so many sets of those that I've sold over the years and now that I needed a set I couldn't find any. JD came to the rescue, he had a pair of gearboxes for the power vents. I made up a harness, bought a reproduction driver's side switch (dual toggle switch) and next step is to install them. The sky is the limit for power options on this car..... As Buzz Lightyear said in Toy Story, "To infinity and beyond"!!!
WANTED - 66 TO 70 FULL SIZE GM POWER BUCKET SEAT TRACK! I believe that will be the only power option the car will be missing.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
