A week ago I posted an issue I was having with an ignition cutting out. One member suggested I check the plugs on the back of the distributor. When I bought the car 15 plus years ago the owner had wrapped all the wires under hood with the black snap on wire covers which look nice but know I can see maybe why? I am hoping someone knows what these wires are connected to. For what ever reason he spliced into the white wire going to the coil. There is now an orange wire going down below the brake master booster into the dash area. I have not had a chance to see where it goes. The other thing that bothers me even more is there is a large red wire with a gray plug that is burned. Do you think the burned wire is shorting out and that is causing the ignition break down? I am very concerned with it being burnt like that and in may have been like that a while, I just don't know. Thanks

 

The plug in your 2nd photo is the battery feed to the high-speed blower motor relay. It's probably why your blower doesn't work on high speed, just like everybody else's doesn't until they get rid of that STOOOPID crap. ALL of those crappy things do that. Yes, I said and meant ALL, as in, EVERY SINGLE ONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION. It is the dung.

The white wire in the factory harness at the coil is for the tach. Skillet must have put an aftermarket tach in the car. That entire connection is a highly suspicious thing, in light of "ignition cutting out". I can't tell whether that factory wire is still intact, or if they cut it, did they solder it back, or what; but I'd suggest getting rid of the non-factory wire, and repairing that white wire as perfectly as possible, from whatever state it's in now.

 

I have the factory tach and it does work. The wire is solder in and I will see where the orange wire goes as soon as I can. As far as my blower motor I have never even tried the blower to be honest. I only drive the car on very nice days in the summer. I have owned it over 15 years and it has not even been wet in those 15 years other than a light hose off at the house and it is storied inside all the time. I guess I should just cut out the burnt wire and fix that section. This all started looking for a bad connection that would cause my ignition to fail for short times. I thought maybe the plugs in the distributor where bad but they look fine to me. I guess I should look at the coil plugs a bit closer. Thanks for your reply.

 

You may have the factory tach, and it may still work. That doesn't erase the fact that Skillet "installed" an aftermarket one at some point in the car's life as is proven by the extra wire hung off of that white one, and if it's not there now, that the wire still is, and it will KILL THE ENGINE if it touches chassis ground. Doesn't matter how many years you've owned it, what kind of days you drive it on, whether you've kept it dry, whether you've ever worked on anything about it yourself, or anything else. IT IS WHAT IT IS. Get rid if it.

The correct answer for the blower motor feed is to cut those incredibly STOOPID factory connectors off, and replace them with something that can handle the power that flows through there (which those obviously CANNOT). Go here https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/elec...orking.html#31 for the info I usually provide people about this. Note that there are several varieties of that connector, with for example different #s of wires in them; but they are all EXACTLY THE SAME as far as what fails about them. Their biggest malfunction is being just altogether too small to begin with; the 2nd biggest is that the rely on the plastic connector body to maintain contact tension. Which is just about the biggest connector design mistake (speaking strictly as someone among whose occasional feeble dabblings in gainful employment is as an electronic engineer... although that's not my education, it's just a lazy way of applying it) that can POSSIBLY be made in connector design. It is simply THE WORST EVAH.

 

Thanks again, Yes I agree the orange wire has to go. I plan on tracking it down asap. I hope I do find the end just hanging under the dash and not hooked to the tach somehow. As far as the connector I plan on cutting that out as you say and ether hard wiring it or a much heavier connector. It is amazing how long you can own something and still find things the guy before you screwed around with. I had purchased a brand new 1991 Firehawk when I was younger and only had it a year and traded it off. I have kicked my *** a thousand times for that mistake!

 

The factory tach doesn't use that extra wire. It uses the white one. What that other was put there for, was to supply that same signal to the other tach.

It is now doing nothing whatsoever except possibly causing problems. Get rid of it altogether. YANK.

 

Just a follow up with this post. I finally had a chance to track where this orange wire went. It ended up going to a security box someone had installed before I bought the car 20 years ago. I never knew it was there and never had a remote to run it. I decided to remove it as the internet is full of stories where these things go bad. So after hours of tracking down wires I cut it out and returned everything back to stock as far as I can tell.

 

I had an aftermarket system....It was garbage...it made the under dash look worse than a rats nest lol Pulled out and never looked back.

 

I agree, it was all wire tied to everything. My power door locks still don't work but everything else seems fine. I hate dealing with wiring!

 

And doubly so when Skillet has been in there with his dykes and strippers (hehehe) half-assing abuncha useless aftermarket crap into it and sodomizing everything in the process...