That was an easy fix. Cut the wire on both sides, and connect it with a yellow connector, and the wire was long enough. So now it could start and run, but for how long? Apparently with hour after hour of running, feeding the ignition, the A/C, the fan, the lights, the fuel pump and the occasional wipers, that was too much. Funnily, my wipers have always been a bit slow and weak. When I fixed the ground they got a lot better. But now they were even faster. About the lights, when I bought the car the lights worked on the ignition. Not sure that that’s original, please chime in, but I liked it since we have to have DRLs, so I would not forget to turn on and off the lights. However, I now have the Carellos as driving lights, so no need. That will be changed. Regardless, I was pretty sure the new wire would hold up if I used the A/C, lights and fan sparingly. But who likes to use anything sparingly? I want full A/C when needed. So I used the relay to draw the current to all of these directly from the battery, and the current from the ignition switch is only used to control the relay. So now all the current runs through the relay, will it manage that? Don’t know, so far it has. As the picture shows, this was done more to be functional than to make it pretty. When I get home I’ll redo it with a proper amperage relay, and rewire the lights to non-ignition current
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