Electric clueless, Electric help Options

[Wew]

Hi all,
1973 2.0
Car has been sitting for some time. I cannot remember or know what the electric lines got to.
These are coming out of the round hole in the center channel.
Any help and advice is much appreciated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

Thanks,

Gary

[Dave_Darling]

I don't have access to my diagrams right now, so I can't search for the exact wire colors. (Some are also a little difficult to see in the photos.)

First picture: The white plastic connector looks like the kind used to plug in the seat-cushion occupancy sensor.

There's a black with a red stripe wire; that probably is switched power. If the stripes are purple, it would be the tach signal wire. It looks like that wire is crimped in with a plain black wire, which is a bit odd; plain black is often an unswitched power wire, such as powers the clock.

The stripes on the wire look non-factory, but we've seen wires striped like that in what appear to be factory wiring as well.

There is a pair of brown wires crimped into a single connector; those are ground. Plain brown is always ground. Next to it are brown/white striped wires; those would be some sort of switched ground. Might be from the door switches, going to the back-pad light.


The wires in the pic in the second post are dirty enough that it's hard to tell what they are. There's obviously a brown wire, but not sure if there are stripes; obviously a couple of white wires but again unsure about any stripes. Probably a brown stripe on one of those wires, but again tough to tell.


Dig into the wiring diagrams for the 73. Try to match up the colors of wire you have to those on the diagram.

--DD