HELP!! Wiring Harness/ Car Wont Start

[gbodyera]

The previous owner of my Mali really screwed things up under the dash. The wires are totally messy.

The car wont start Im not even getting any sign of power to the starter at all. HELP

I have a brown wire coming out of the harness in the engine compartment spliced into a yellow wire going into the car hooked to nothing. ?

This is a purple wire coming from the harness on the left side of the column. Not connected.???

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS. CAN I CUT IT?

This shows the screwed up ignition switch wiring.

The ignition switch has 2 connectors/ 1 blue and 1 black

The blue connector has a 4 wires. pink , purple, red and brown wires.

Black connector has 4 wires also.
1.thin brown wire w/ white stripe
2.thin dark green wire
3. thick orange wire
4. thick pink wire

My neutral safety switch has 2 connectors and 5 wires
1. lime green wire and
2. dk blue wire
3. thin orange wire w/ black stripe
4. black wire
5. black wire w/ white stripe

 

[gbodyera]

Anyone?

 

[FE3X CLONE]

Time to get out the multimeter and start tracing wires. The large purple wire in the blue plug is the starter wire.

The red box you have in your hand looks to be the chime module. Don't cut it unless you don't want the door chime, headlight chime, etc.

 

[gbodyera]

This has been driving me very close to the point of insanity all week long! I need to break this damn motor in!!

 

[anakputa]

Is it a former column shift car? I had a friend swap a shifter in and the old column shift lever linkage moved and it wouldn't start..

 

[Doober]

My guess is there was an alarm in it, and it's been removed, possibly in haste/without care. This picture (white fuse holder in the background) makes me even more suspicious:

If that's all it is, pull out your multimeter and check for continuity to where the cut purple wire in the picture goes. If it has continuity to the starter wire, odds are there is another purple wire that it originally connected to that goes to the ignition switch.

Another option is to drop the column on the Monte in your sig, (it will have the same wiring pertaining to what you're working on) and compare. Odds are you can straighten it out that way.

 

[megaladon6]

you're gonna have to buy a GOOD wiring diagram and trace out the wires.
but, just to get the motor going, run your own harness. run power to a switch then to the coil and run main wires from the batt to the starter and alternator. then run another switched wire from the starter (small post just for cranking) disconnect the wiring harness from the batt just in case. and make sure the engine has at least 2 main grounds, one to the body and one directly to the batt.

 

[gbodyera]

I got it all figured out. The purple wire that i showed was to the other end of the start wire on the ignition switch. I plan on breaking in the motor early tomorrow morning.

 

[anakputa]

Hope this helps for a 82 Malibu