Tracing wires & horn questions Options

[narino]

With the warm weather I've spent the last few days fixing wire connections and removing extraneous wires by the PO. A couple wires have me stumped, hoping for some help from the hive mind.

#1 - I have a heavy gauge red wire that is coming off the alternator, that the previous owner spliced into and ran through the longs to the hot terminal by the fuse box.

• Is this red wire from the alternator stock? I couldn't find it on the wire diagram.

#2 - The PO ran heavy gauge red wires through the longs to the hot terminal by the fuse box.

• I do not think this is stock, from what I've read there were no wires in the longs. I've only found reference to the charcoal canister lines in the longs. Could someone confirm whether this is correct or not?
• If these lines are not stock, then what originally used to go through the hole behind the dash, where these lines currently run? Pic attached for reference.

#3 - I bought some pilot fog lights and went to install them and saw my horns are in the way.

• Are these horns stock?
• Before I start tearing more things apart, are there other mounting points to relocate these horns away from the grilles?

Once I get these hot wires figured out I'll feel safer trying to start her and get her back on the road.

Thanks in advance!


(IMG:http://narino.com/images/wire%20to%20alt%2001%20sm.jpg)
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(IMG:http://narino.com/images/horns%20sm.jpg)

[narino]

Update and more questions.

• Tested resistance to wires and all reads good. I'll continue to remove the extraneous wires.

A while back a few wires to my headlight switch burnt out, which is why i'm tracing these wires now. Now that I have most of the wires repaired. How do I test the headlight switch? I'd hate to hook it back up only to refry every wire I just replaced.

*edit* Also, thank you to @JeffBowlsby . An email to him straightened out my confusion on why the starter to alternator wire was labeled as a smaller gauge. I need to get my eyes checked, it read 25mm not 2.5mm. *facepalm*

[Dave_Darling]

[/list]A while back a few wires to my headlight switch burnt out, which is why i'm tracing these wires now. Now that I have most of the wires repaired. How do I test the headlight switch?

Here's a dissection of an early switch: http://members.rennlist.com/pbanders/headl...h_internals.htm

Later ones are pretty similar. I don't remember the differences off the top of my head, though.

--DD

[narino]

Thank you @Dave_Darling . I had seen that article on pelican, but it doesn't explain how to test the switch with a multimeter. I'm not sure across which pins to test, and if I'm supposed to check for a certain resistance. Sorry, I'm a novice to the electrical stuff.