There's one, with a little rubber elbow, looks like a tiny spark plug wire that just pushes onto a small terminal on the starter
The US-spec carbed 1500 is weird in several ways, and if you check out the wiring diagram in post #14 above you’ll see that wire is one of these weirdnesses. It makes some emission control stuff do something when the motor is cranking.... and come to think of it, it would be worth disconnecting that wire and trying again.
Mine is emission equipment delete, removed it all ages ago so that wire goes to nowhere then and wouldn't have an effect but I'll try taking it off and see if it makes a difference. Was never an issue before and was always connected.
Yeah, that wires not for emissions, don't know wtf that diagrams is referring to. I removed it and the only thing that happened is that the gauges and everything else won't work even in the start postion but the cat still starts. Reconnected and everything works fine, while the starter is cranking that is. The wire is white or yellow with a red stripe or vice versa.
Here's a couple of pics of the wire in question. It's yellow with a red stripe. I am beginning to think that the place that rebuilt the starter did something wrong. When I crank the motor with this wire connected to the solenoid everything works, then nothing works with the key in the on position. When I remove this wire from the solenoid, the car will still start and run but nothing else works even in the start postion which leads me to believe that this wire is supposed to provide constant power in the start and on key postions and whatever they did when they rebuilt the solenoid part of the starter was wrong because its
Sorry that wire is yellow with a red stripe. I am starting to think that the place that rebuilt the started did something wrong in the solenoid because this wire obviously provides power to all the things not working with the key in the on postion. The only things affected when I start the car with this wire removed are the things not working with the key in the on postion and don't work now while the starter is cranking as they were with the wire connected. They must have eliminated a connection in the starter. Thoughts anyone?
Bone stock wiring harness. That schematic does not show the same wire, the wire I have is yellow with a red stripe, not the same colors as the one in the schematic. Ridiculous.
Just got off the phone with the tech who rebuilt it and the f***ing idiot is convinced that it's not the solenoid. What a f***ing idiot. I wasted an entire week tracing every godamm wire and that moron thinks it's a blown fuse or blown guages. How the f*** does he think it's a blown fuse or I need new gauges when everything works only while the car is cranking? There obviously is a connection inside the solenoid that provides constant power to the accessories and gauges only while the key is in the run position as opposed to the start/cranking postion and he wired it to the wrong spot in the solenoid. What a f***ing idiot.
Can't be. I haven't made any changes to the wires at the key switch. This wire in the pick is not the trigger wire, the trigger wire is on a spade connector and its green and if I jumped that one all it would do is cause the starter to engage. It's this yellow wire with the red stripe in the pic that makes the gauges and accessories coem to life and I traced it into the wiring harness into the cabin at this point, so this wire has nothing to do with emissions either as someone mentioned earlier. I am shocked that no one has recognized this wire yet. Starting to think I must have a one off x1/9 or a prototype of some sort, figured this wire is common in most carburetated 1500s.
Look again, it's yellow. That or I'm color blind or that it's so old it changed color from white to bright yellow but it's bright yellow with a red stripe, unless of course the schematic just refers to it as white.
