Pioneer guide flag and braid

[oz10k]

I just picked-up a new '68 Mustang. Beautiful car! But out of the box it couldn't make it once around the track. It would just randomly stop. Sometime a push would get it going. :cry:

After a lot of looking I realized it was due to a poor electrical connection. The lead wires are connected to a tab, and that tab makes contact with a tab on the braid. The tab on the braid has a small protrusion, and it looks like that should mate with a punch-out on the lead wire tab. But on mine the punch-out wasn't punched out:



I think the design may be OK, but it was poorly manufactured.

Has anyone else had similar intermittent electrical issues? Did you punch-out the section on the lead wire tab? Or did you find a different solution?

Thanks,
Ron

[HomeRacingWorld]

Just pull the wire end as you did and crimp the connection. It makes the braid end fit tighter.

I converted all of mine to a more standard setup.

[oz10k]

The two sides of the braid are very different:



And the side of the braid that has the bump in it was not facing the tab on the lead wire. So I flipped the braid over and installed it so that there was more tab-to-tab contact area. That solved the problem!

[Wobble]

My mustang wasn't doing the best so I went to a Ninco prorace guide and it runs sweet as a nut but so does my Camaro and that still has the standard guide but smaller front tyres has helped that a lot too.

[JULES]

Ron, those punched tabs should make a tight fit inside the guide flag. It is a simple interference fit, brass to brass. Glad you got her fixed.

Jules
@ pioneer

[Dogsbody]

[Wobble]