My 1963 shop manual shows no fuse protection to the ignition switch so I am gonna say that if there was any in 1964 it was the first year. My 1969 manual shows the fuse link between the battery and the terminal block, leaving the big cable to the starter as the only one unfused. I believe the terminal block on the C series was mounted high on the firewall, my T50 was near the battery, down low near the front bumper. Since the fire engine wiring was much modified by the body builder, I replaced the terminal block and moved it to the radiator support for access and protection.
The original voltage regulator should not be needed except for the wiring to the idiot light on the dash. I gutted my regulator and jumpered the connections from the alternator to the light so it still works and the "regulator" looks stock. I used a 3 wire alternator to preserve the dash light and get better regulation as mine is a fire truck with heavy electrical loads and now has a 105 amp alternator. I will install a voltmeter in the spot where the added gas gage is once I reconnect the stock gage. The fire truck builder wanted to use a standard sender which has now become unreliable and is obsolete. I have a currently standard sender to make the original gage (which is still in the dash) work as the factory intended.
I do not like the long, usually unfused, wires that are needed to install an ammeter in the dash, the voltmeter tells me more anyway.
Your truck looks great!
Last edited by sweepleader; 11/23/2019 6:06 PM.
