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Old 07-05-2023, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Vetteman61 View Post
It's been quite a few years ago, but from what I remember it was due to the fact that the old glass fuses didn't make great contact and had a tendency to get hot and melt the plastic (or possibly bakelite) surrounding. I installed the fuse holder below and it never happened again. My owned a '71 Catalina since '74, and it has never had this issue.

x2 for that type of fuseholder. I did that for my '66 GTO about 30 years ago.
These fuseholders were used in GM cars from the '80's and are available as a GM-Packard replacement part: https://www.bmotorsports.com/shop/pr...roducts_id/959


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