Electrical I smell hot wires

General karthief said:

What's wrong with yours?

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Unless I get some feedback about replacing the one Red with LG stripe resistor wire thats getting hot, I am going to replace it with a new NON resistor wire..
The new wire will require a new metal connector to plug into the ignition switch connector.. Do not want to tie into the existing wire anywhere as I am not sure how much of it is resistor....

Bypassed the resistor wire that was getting hot with a new wire and everything seems fine now... No hot wire and no burning electrical smell...
I had to buy the entire kit from my local OReilly's to get a new metal connector for the connector that goes into the ignition switch.... To anyone else doing this here is the part # and the connectors are an exact copy of my stock one....
The Cars with the older style can coils had this resistor wire in the wiring system....

AeroCoupe said:

I wonder why my T-Bird doesn’t seem to have the issue. I put a TFI coil on it years ago. Need to check the wiring diagrams.

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There is a possibility that this was not my issue... From what I have read alot of people complain about the same resistor wire getting hot in both Ford and GM cars.... I will be watching this and will not be putting the under dash all back together for a while until I am sure this fixed the burnt wire smell..
As hot as that wire was, I am really glad I deleted it no matter what.....