[1stgenbird]

I've had an issue plaguing my 67 Firebird since early June that I haven't figured out yet,


The power wire coming from the positive battery cable to a junction block sending voltage to the regulator keeps frying.


I was driving to a cruise night going across an intersection when the car lost power and smoke began pouring out from under the hood. When I opened the hood I saw that wire, which is a fusable link, had fried and the smoke was the insulation burning.


I had the car towed home and when I looked more closely, it seemed if I may have run that wire incorrectly when I recently replaced the parking lights and removed the battery to access the light connector and ground and when replacing the battery, I may have pinched the wire between the battery and the radiator and eventually caused the insulation to wear though and short out.


I jury rigged another wire (12ga rather than the original 14ga) by crimping a ring terminal on one end to attach to the junction block and stripping an inch of insulation off the other end and sticking it under the positive battery terminal. Problem solved, or so I thought.


Car drove fine for a week or so then it happened again, 3 times in the span of 10 miles. Someone suggested replacing the voltage regulator as it may have been damaged when this initially happened so I did. Again drove fine for 10 miles then happened again last night right in front of my home. Replaced the wire and it instantly fried, tried again and fried. I was just trying to get it started to make it back into my garage. On the 3rd try it worked and I pulled into the garage.


I put a voltage meter across the battery and it read as it should have once it was in the garage.


I'm stumped. I have to say that all the wiring harnesses in the car were replaced last year with ones from AAW.


Any thoughts?