Stock Wiring Harness

[Street Sweeper22]

Im trying to repair the factory wire harness for a 84 Buick 3.8 and I have an extra green wire. It comes out of the main harness at the same place as the distributor wire, alternator plug and a/c compressor plug. The a/c plug looks like it has been repaired. Any ideas on its destination? Any help is appreciated.

 

[78Delta88]

Electric choke??

 

[Street Sweeper22]

Electric choke??

No, I have that one. I’ll take some better pics.

 

[Ugly1]

Go on here. He might have the diagram you need.

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[Ribbedroof]

Dark green is usually temp sender on GM products

 

[Street Sweeper22]

I went through my whole wiring harness. Plug by plug. Its not the green wire for the compressor clutch unless there are two green wires that go to it.

 

[stew86MCSS396]

I know I know comparing a 305 V8 to a 231 V6 may be an apple to oranges comparison but see if this will help you out...

Is this something I should take the time to do?

Since I currently have my complete under hood wire harness out of the split looms and each circuit sorted out, would it be a worthwhile exercise to photograph each connector at the end of each circuit and post them in a thread here with a description of what the connector is, what color of...

www.montecarloss.com

 

[Street Sweeper22]

I know I know comparing a 305 V8 to a 231 V6 may be an apple to oranges comparison but see if this will help you out...

Is this something I should take the time to do?

Since I currently have my complete under hood wire harness out of the split looms and each circuit sorted out, would it be a worthwhile exercise to photograph each connector at the end of each circuit and post them in a thread here with a description of what the connector is, what color of...

www.montecarloss.com

Thanks for that bro. I’m going to double check it against mine.

 

[Street Sweeper22]

Dark green is usually temp sender on GM products

I have two wires going to my temp sensor. I’m gonna go double check the colors.

 

[Ribbedroof]

Could be the Idle Stop Solenoid (ISS) or idle kicker on the carb. This is a solenoid that allows the idle to increase when A/C is active. It is de-energized when the car or A/C is shut off to prevent "dieseling" (engine run-on). This system is used to compensate for the required idle speed increase to offset the drag of the compressor, without having to raise the hard stop on the throttle shaft of the carb.

This actually makes more sense to me than the temp sender, given the location where the wire exits the harness sheathing. Kinda forgot about that since on the last one I built all that was elimnated.