RE: 77 Scout wiring harness, then some...

["Eppinger.Michael" <Eppinger.Michael@domain.elided>]

Hey Matt, 
I believe that is the control box for the cruise control.  Some scouts came
with that option.  The previous owner may have disconnected it, or swapped
steering columns on you.

Hope that helps
Epp

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matt and Leah Seay [SMTP:mrseay@domain.elided]
> Sent:	Sunday, January 10, 1999 11:52 PM
> To:	ihc-digest@domain.elided
> Subject:	77 Scout wiring harness, then some...
> 
>     I'm checking out my beast and find that the previous owners did some
> interesting things to the wiring harness.  I'm finding a few burnt wires,
> a
> few cut wires and lots of weird connections.  I pulled the wiring diagrams
> from Binder Bulletin and started tracing lines.  Didnt quite match
> everywhere.  Weird thing is...that it ran like this.  Most of the of the
> gages didnt work and sometimes the starter would not disengage if the
> engine
> didnt turnover, but she still ran.
>     Does it stand to reason that I would want to replace the wiring
> harness?
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to get a replacement? I
> looked
> at Centech wiring, but I didnt see anything for Scouts w/ electronic
> ignition.
>     Second question, there is a box located under the master cylinder
> attached to the firewall that I cannot figure out what it is.  I think it
> is
> some sort of sending unit because the wires leaving it go towards my gages
> and there is a cable attached to it from the transmission. The speedometer
> cable also attaches to this box. I've looked for it on all the wiring
> diagrams I have, but have not been able to figure it out.  Last week, I
> looked at some older Scouts at junkyards and none of them had this unit.
> Help is greatly appreciated.
>     Semper Fi,
>                             Matt Seay
>