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Help needed with instrument panel harness

Kimodc

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Can anyone help me identify these instrument panel wires from a 1969 Sport Satellite with AC. I have the harness layed out on my work bench and some of the tags either fell off or I didn’t mark to begin with a year ago when I took it apart. Any help would be appreciated!

black wire with a tracer, sits next to cigar lighter

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Third, is 4 brown wires, one of which is light brown with a tracer, and two of the wires are “tied” together with a small wrap of tape
 
Brown tied together are windshield washer pump switch. The other brown without tracer goes to the lower spade closest to the ashtray on the windshield wiper switch. It is that spade which provides the power to the washer switch. Of those brown ones one is slightly darker, it is the one that goes to the pump which is the spade closet to the steering column on the pump switch.

Brown with tracer, I don’t know where it goes
 
Picture one. The red wire with the angle plug is the cigar lighter. The black with the tracer is the ground.
Picture two. White and should be pink not red. But those go to the brake light switch. Sorry I was wrong red goes to the flasher then comes out of the flasher as apink wire to the brake light switch. White goes there to. Here is a picture with arrows pointing them out.
picture three. Im pretty sure 2 of the browns go to the wiper switch.

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The black is not a ground. The lighter grounds to the dash frame. The black with the tracer is your power feed to the blower switch. The browns as said two taped together go to the washer switch. One brown will go to the wiper switch. The one brown with the u shape cut on the insulator goes to the wiper switch resistor if it is 3 speed. If two speed it is just taped to the harness. The white and pink single wires go to the brake light switch. Not the flasher.
 
Thank you! That make sense!

How about this black connector with two yellow wires with black tracers in the middle of the pic? (To the capacitor on the gauge cluster?)

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And pnora, does that black wire with two thin tracers plug into the black wire with a thick and thin tracer from the heater/AC harness like pictured here?
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Thank you! That make sense!

How about this black connector with two yellow wires with black tracers in the middle of the pic? (To the capacitor on the gauge cluster?)

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And pnora, does that black wire with two thin tracers plug into the black wire with a thick and thin tracer from the heater/AC harness like pictured here?
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Yes that is the collector for the black wire. The yellow with the black tracer goes to the buzzer that tells you the lights are left on when you open the door.
 
Okay, I don’t see a buzzer present, but perhaps someone previously removed it.

Then what does this capacitor on the gauge cluster plug into?


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This was all on your exam you took before you got your B-Body Permit.
 
Okay, I don’t see a buzzer present, but perhaps someone previously removed it.

Then what does this capacitor on the gauge cluster plug into?


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The voltage limiter. I goes in the 12 volt keyed female slot on the circuit board and the limiter plugs in the same slot with it. I am not sure on the buzzer but I do believe it most likely came with certain option packages. It is possible your car did not have that option. The main harness is made for all models so if it was an added option it would plug right in.
 
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Does this look correct?


I tried studying for the FSM im preparation for the exam, but feel more confident sitting next to pnora and copying his answers!
 
The black is not a ground. The lighter grounds to the dash frame. The black with the tracer is your power feed to the blower switch. The browns as said two taped together go to the washer switch. One brown will go to the wiper switch. The one brown with the u shape cut on the insulator goes to the wiper switch resistor if it is 3 speed. If two speed it is just taped to the harness. The white and pink single wires go to the brake light switch. Not the flasher.
I was not sure on the black white tracer wire. Glad you caught that. But look at the schematic above it shows the red going to the flasher then changes to pink to the switch. I would agree with you that both red and white go to the brake switch. But why do they show the flasher in the middle of the circuit?
 
I was not sure on the black white tracer wire. Glad you caught that. But look at the schematic above it shows the red going to the flasher then changes to pink to the switch. I would agree with you that both red and white go to the brake switch. But why do they show the flasher in the middle of the circuit?
Don't let it confuse you. At the flasher there are 2 pinks piggy backed at the one terminal. One pink is from the fuse block so it is constant 12 volts and the other pink just goes over to the brake pedal switch. The flashers other red wire then feeds the 4 way flasher switch. Red is not the source of the 12 volts. Pink is.
 
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Does this look correct?


I tried studying for the FSM im preparation for the exam, but feel more confident sitting next to pnora and copying his answers!

No... the middle one which is the input for the VL

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It uses to carry a carboard piece for isolation of the condenser wire with VL chassis just in case, to save from an accidental short. ALTHOUGHT if correctly inserted and wire cover in good conditions is not needed, just extra safe.

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Thanks Nacho, I will change it over to the middle one.

I have been reading where lots of guys switch over to the solid state voltage limiter. I checked mine and it is working correctly, but am I running risk of it failing and frying my gauges by not changing over to a solid state one? As far as I can tell, it is the original 52 year old voltage limiter in there now.
 
There is allways a risk of a mechanical one failing after all these years. Mine hasn't failed in 40 years either, but back in the day a damaged VL wasn't a problem like it is now getting accidentally broken and burning gauges. Some cars got repro gauges available nowdays but not every one. The solid state one SUPOSELLY get a protection over a failure to cut the power to gauges if happens.
 
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I have my dash harness all sorted out and in place except for 2 wires that are part of the AC/heat harness, I think..... where does this brown and blue wire go?
 
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