Mystery wire

[66gt350]

I've got a mystery wire under my dash that I'm not sure where it goes.

It all started out with doing the intermittent wiper swap...and like normal for anything that I do, it goes down hill from there. To get the wiper motor out, I had to dissassemble a good chunk under the dash due to the rat's nest of wires that I've added. So, to make a long, long story short, I did alot of rewiring of my rat's nest. It's a bit neater under the dash now (it's now down to a mouse nest), and I got everything put back in. I was just finishing up working on the wideband gauge, and I see sparks fly. I start looking and there's a wire dangling. It's either light blue or grey with a black stripe coming out of the main underdash wiring harness on the right side of the dash by the wiper motor. The wire has a factory eye connector on the end, not a bullet plug. The wire is a constant hot. I don't recall undoing this wire, but it's been 105

 

[Midlife]

That's the fog lamp power lead. It goes to a 10 amp circuit breaker (a small box with 2 posts on it) mounted on the chassis.

 

[66gt350]

Thanks Mid. But that brings up a couple more questions. Where exactly is the circuit breaker? The wire's not long enough to go very far. Since my car didn't have fog lights when I got it, has it always just kinda hung there? Without that attached, my fog lights work, but only when the key is on. Do I have the fog lights wired wrong?

 

[Midlife]

If you now have fog lamps, it sounds like they are wired differently than what the factory had. Originally, they were an option, but the main wiring loom had a wire providing power to the CB as a standard feature. The ring connector made this feature a hazard of shorting, and was a bad design.

Simply wrap the wire up in electrical tape and be done with it.

 

[66gt350]

Kewl. That's for the info.