I have a 70 Chevelle that I bought and the PO did some weird stuff with the wiring. He decided to put everything on toggle switches in the dash. I have switches for the ignition, fuel pump, electric water pump and the radiator fan. The key switch does nothing but turn the starter over and go to the run position. If I turn the key switch off nothing happens. Everything has to be shut down with the toggles and the master switch.

I am starting to sort things out to go to an SS dash but something has got me a little stumped. On the ignition toggle switch (not the key switch) he has the hot wire coming from the hot feed on the fuse box. The master switch is before the fuse box, so anytime the master switch is on – it has a hot lead.
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That goes to the panel switch where he has the wire out going to the coil but there is another wire out going to the starter solenoid.

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The blue wire goes to the starter solenoid. Another wire goes from the solenoid to the back of the fuse panel (engine side).

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The questions I have are:

How do I hook everything back up so that it will start and run with the key switch again ?

I want to dump the toggles and get the fuel and water pumps on the regular ignition switch using relays off the fuse panel – I’ll put the fans on a thermostat so I don’t need to worry about them.

I appreciate any help !

Tom

wow.

That sounds really really hacked up. It would seem that you could go a couple of ways here. But I think you are really a candidate for a full reproduction dash wiring harness. It will have all the right connectors in all the right places to return to stock operation. The one worry is what may have been hacked in the engine and/or front lighting harnesses.

Your other path is to get a wiring diagram and start running/tracing wires. Lot of work there though...