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Re: Is this a fusible link and what connector is this?
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Originally Posted by dmjlambert
If you go changing the wire sizes, you may need to be aware the stock battery gauge is an ammeter and it depends on the battery to alternator junction wire being 12 gauge. That length of wire across top of the radiator support serves as a shunt.
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Good catch.  I'd forgotten about that. Very few folks actually understand how that works, and some think it's a full-current ammeter. My 69 has a voltmeter from an 80-something truck.
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Mike
1969 C10 LWB -- owned for 36 years. 350/TH350, 3.08 posi, 1st Gen Vintage Air, recent AAW wiring harness, 5-lug conversion, 1985 spindles and brakes.
1982 C10 SWB -- converted from 250-six to roller cam 350, Vortec heads -- sold
1981 C10 Silverado LWB, 305, TH350C -- sold, but wish I still had it!
1969 C10 (not the current one) that I bought in the early 1980s. Paid $1200; sold for $1500 a few years later. Just a hint at the appreciation that was coming.
Retired as a factory automation products salesman.
Worked part-time over the years for an engine builder and a classic car repair shop.
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