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I came across this Hoss. Hope it helps.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/38367255019...yABEgKxMvD_BwE

This talks about polishing a windshield - https://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Scrat...m-a-Windshield
Note in #1 it says if your fingernail catches in the scratch it's not repairable, and the glass should be replaced.

i'm guessing if you have insurance it's covered, if not I bought a truck with a cracked windshield, to ld the guy I wouldn't pay what he wanted unless the windshield was replaced. He said he had a guy who could do it that day for two hundred bucks so he took that off the price and the guy came, installed and left in a two hour window. I got his number for future issues! My point is there are alot of car glass guys who moonlight on their off days

If you did indeed have a points ignition system in the Pinto and now want to go full 12 volts to the coil..
Just isolate the coil feed all the way into the ignition switch and replace the resistance wire with a new multi-strand primary wire. Bingo, no voltage drop from the resistance wire.
When cranking, battery voltage will drop no matter where you tap in. If your still using the Ford solenoid mounted on the apron, just add a connector wire from the starter feed side of the solenoid to the positive side of the coil and that'll bypass any voltage drop found under the dash. at least during the crank cycle. HTH

Hoss,
Just to be clear you need a full +12V to your coil during both "Crank" and "Run". You can easily verify that with a Voltmeter. There are a bunch of ways to accomplish what you need, but the need is really simple - 12V+ at your coil during crank, and then maintaining the +12V as your key returns to "RUN".

for the next 15 or 20 posts or so i am going to take a trip down memory lane as best as i can remember .. i dont have pictures of any cars i owned 45 years ago or less but i can find reasonable lookalikes on the web .. my first car was a hand me down from an older brother .. a silver 64 ford with a 406 six pac and a 4 speed .. he had been out of school a few years and had gotten married and did not need the car .. i needed a car to drive to school .. it was 1972 / 3 / school year that i used the car .. i did not have a drivers license but that did not stop me .. nobody had insurance and i never even got the car put in my name .. even in 1973 the 64 ford was an old car .. i broke the trans and parked the car and traded for something later ..

84 i had given the beat up comet back to the junkyard and spotted a neat little barely damaged 72 pinto ,, i`m still at the machine shop so i have the pinto delivered there .. i proceed to build a full 2 x 3 tube frame on a flat build table ,, people there liked me and they helped me get things right and let me work when they were closed . they had a tube bender so i made a 8 point role cage .. they had an overhead crane so i mounted the pinto skin on my home made frame .. i had cut out the entire floor pan and made a new one from aluminum sheet they had laying around .i cut the rear end and had a professional welder put it back together for me . i shortened the axles myself and again with a friends help re splined them to 31 and put a 4'56 gear and mini spool in the chunk.,, i used the stock pinto front suspension ..after i got a rolling chassis together i was layed off and went back to the junkyard ..there i finished the body and put in the wheel tubs for the 15 x 32 slicks .i installed the bogus BOSS302 and a c5 auto trans . ( mistake ) .. i made headers from old stuff laying around ..i played with that combo all summer long and could never get it to perform right .. i even put in a huge stall convertor that would not work with the no torque 302 ..if i had put a 4 speed in the car the rest of this story would have been vastly different ..my pinto was solid white but looked like Bobs ..

1999 has rolled around and i have finally stopped having to pay child support so i can pretty quickly save up a few bucks .. i grew tired of the Tbird so i take the motor and trans out and give the body to a fellow ford loving friend of mine .. the same fellow who wound up with my dented drag truck .. we have swapped and sold to each other our hand me down ford hot rod stuff for the past 40 years .. he has a 66 falcon sitting in his backyard and i get that from him along with a 351 Windsor short block and a T5 trans .. aluminum heads and big cam and 4:10 9 inch rear and this car is a blast for a minute .. i am coming from the gas station one day poking along behind a tractor and as soon as an opening comes up i pull out to pass and nail it .. soon as i get to his back wheel he cuts left into a pasture and send me into a big ditch .. luckily i had enuff speed up to get back out of the ditch but my front end had been damaged more than i could deal with .. alignment was off and such ,, only after about 3 months that car was canned in favor of a 64 falcon .. same drivetrain .. at the same time i have spotted a 69 mustang body in mississippi .. a friend with a garage wants my 64 falcon body and says he will go to mississippi and get the mustang and let me use his shop to build it if i would give him the falcon body .. so i had the 64 for about 3 weeks .. set the 351 5 speed out of the way for a bit .. i have begun construction of my own shop late in 99 ..

the fellow i sold the pinto to for a while did not know how to do a brake stand burnout so he would rev the engine up in neutral and drop it in drive to spin the wheels .. he did it one time too many and stripped the spider gears . then i got the car back from him ... i could not find anything to fix it with at the time so i welded one spider gear to the pinion case .. i knew i did not want to weld both spiders as it would make the car difficult to drive .. recently the rear had begun making some popping and crackling noises so i figured it was ready to give up again .. a fellow i know has several mustang 2 8 inch rears that are a direct bolt in but he wont part with any . some the V6 pintos came with 8 inch rears as well but they are as rare as hens teeth ..

Hoss,
Here's a simple Pinto Ignition Wiring Diagram:
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Note two wires to the Coil+, the yellow/black from the ignition plus a black from the amplifier. You'll find that the yellow/black goes to a connector, and is a black wire after. That black section after the connector is a resistor wire to drop running volts to about 9V. With your key "ON" you can check to be sure of your voltage before & after the connector. Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by rspears

Hoss,
Here's a simple Pinto Ignition Wiring Diagram:
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Note two wires to the Coil+, the yellow/black from the ignition plus a black from the amplifier. You'll find that the yellow/black goes to a connector, and is a black wire after. That black section after the connector is a resistor wire to drop running volts to about 9V. With your key "ON" you can check to be sure of your voltage before & after the connector. Hope this helps.

Roger, is the black wire from the amplifier a constant 12 volts or only present when cranking? If only energized only during cranking the black wire from the ign switch, which is a resistance wire, can be replaced with a regular wire of the same gauge.
I would think the black wire from the amplifier is energized only during cranking otherwise there would be a constant 12 volts at the "+" terminal of the coil.

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

Roger, is the black wire from the amplifier a constant 12 volts or only present when cranking? If only energized only during cranking the black wire from the ign switch, which is a resistance wire, can be replaced with a regular wire of the same gauge.
I would think the black wire from the amplifier is energized only during cranking otherwise there would be a constant 12 volts at the "+" terminal of the coil.

Yes, the black from the amplifier is hot only during cranking, and I believe that if Hoss just adds the black wire from the amplifier (or another source that's hot during crank) and then replaces the section of black wire from the connector to the coil with a piece of regular auto wiring like you say it'll fix his problem, but I'd want to verify voltages with a meter just to be sure, especially on a vehicle of this age that's had a lot of work through the years.

Originally Posted by rspears

Yes, the black from the amplifier is hot only during cranking, and I believe that if Hoss just replaces the section of black wire from the connector to the coil with a piece of regular auto wiring like you say it'll fix his problem, but I'd want to verify voltages with a meter just to be sure, especially on a vehicle of this age that's had a lot of work through the years.

Couldn't agree more, sure hope he gets it fixed.

in the 73 / 74 school year i drove another 64 ford .. i dont remember where it came from .. i do remember having a friend put a motor in it .. he gave me a choice between a 352 or a 428 police interceptor engine .. of course i chose the latter .. i remember not paying for it and having the friend sick a collection agency on me .. i paid it off eventually somehow .. a little over 300 bucks for the engine and labor putting it in ..later in the school year i traded that car for a 64 mustang with a 6 banger and a 3 speed trans . gas had gotten a bit high and hard to find . . my father drove it to church one Sunday and broke the trans .. i quess he felt bad about that and knew i still had to have a car so he bought a 69 ford XL ..i dont remember what became of the mustang .. i think there was a period in 74 when i had 4 cars at the same time .. pretty good for a fellow who never had a job ..i kept the XL for about 15 years .. it was always a backup ride . it was cool looking and was a 2 dr hardtop with hideaway lights and a big 429 ..exactly like the picture .

as i said earlier it aint nothing for me to get some years mixed up .... i know that while working at the junkyard a nascar race driver would come by from time to time and get a monte carlo body .. ..i`m thinking it was mid to late 70's .. i know that in the early 80,s i'm working at the machine shop .. Thompson Industries ,, and i know that we are the major sponsor of a nascar race team ,, car # 52 .. the junkyard owner also had a small advertisement on the car .. i`m telling my new wife that " hey !! i work at a company that sponsors Jimmy Means race car .. she knows absolutely nothing about race cars but she knows Jimmy Means .. she`s related to him .. he came to a family reunion later that year .. i remember seeing him but do not remember speaking .. you can see Thompson Industries on the quarter panel .. North Alabama Auto Parts should be on a small sticker somewhere else ..local radio station WIXC sponsored him for a bit earlier .. i found a picture of that car and this car ..