Re: [ihc] Electrical wiring again... wiring identification and some more...

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could it be an ignition resistor??

Steve
--- Ryan Moore <baradium@domain.elided> wrote:
> I'm looking through my service manual at the various
> wiring diagrams for my
> scout, trying to figure out various places to check
> to try to locate my
> short (well, I still think it's a short at least). 
> Anyway, I have something
> I can't seem to find in the wiring diagrams or
> schematics etc. On the
> firewall towards the passenger side, it almost looks
> like it is just a
> connector riveted to the firewall.  There are two
> green wires going into it,
> look about 10 gauge to me.  The wires go into the
> main harness, one looks
> like it may go down to the starter and one just goes
> into the engine
> harness.
> 
> I'm guessing it serves to connect the two green
> wires together without
> requiring them to be one single wire or have a
> floating connector?   It's
> just to the passenger side and slightly above the
> engine bulkhead connector
> (which is near the center of the firewall).
> 
> I'm thinking that they might be for the alternator,
> but I couldn't find any
> numbers on the wires and since I haven't yet located
> it on a diagram I'm not
> certain as to what they are...
> 
> Anyway, I cleaned the prongs for it and the
> connectors.  The prongs are
> riveted to the connector and one of them is a little
> loose (you can rotate
> it, it's an L shaped prong with the rivet in the
> bottom of the L).  If this
> is indeed for the alternator, I wonder if this could
> be loosing continuity.
> But along those lines, is there any reason that
> losing the extra few volts
> above battery level would cause the engine to
> stumble/surge/etc while
> driving?  (remember, it's a prestolite dizzy).
> 
> Or is this wire something else?  Such as for the
> starting circuit?  I'm
> trying to avoid really tampering much with anything
> before getting some
> positive identification.
> 
> Any more ideas on what could be causing my problem
> would be appreciated.
> (sysmtems, ammeter gets a little jumpy and the
> engine surges with the
> ammeter.  Initially when the ammeter starts it
> doesn't do anything, but when
> it reaches a point the engine seems to chime in
> (will see the ammeter move a
> little bit some without any change, and then it's a
> little bigger and the
> engine starts surging).  The deflections are less
> than half scale down and
> can get up to half scale or so up on the bigger
> ones...  fairly fast
> bouncing...
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
> 
> 
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