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I am starting to redo the wiring in my '63 C60. The fuse box is corroded and I have several relays laying around(power comes in, goes out through 8 terminals). Do any of you know how to wire it up? I'm not putting a fuse box in since this will have fuses with it. Also what wires are necessary for the truck to run?

what circuit are you putting the relay in? what circuits did the fuse box handle? fuses and relays are different animals, either might not be the most appropriate safeguard for any given component and how a relay is connected depends on what you want it to do

for the truck to run all you need is a wire from the battery to the starter and one to the coil + , neither of which is fused

Bill

The relay is a lug strip? All of my circuits will be running through this. My lights, wipers and cigarette lighter.

ahhh, a terminal strip with fuses, or what most would call a fuse box like this, or maybe with circuit breakers or modern style fuses rather than glass fuses - and a relay is like this, used mostly in the headlight or horn circuit where you want to avoid having the high current draw in the switch

wiring that fuse/terminal switch in is just like using inline fuses, power from the battery to one side of the fuse, other side to the item being powered - some terminal strips have a single post for the battery side to hook to, if each fuse has individual terminals, you can run the power to a common wire across one side of the strip to catch each fuse position so each one is "tapping off" the same power connection - make sure you use a fairly heavy wire in that case

Bill