Title: ballast near starter relay
Post by: 83TB on October 12, 2012, 02:50:40 PM
Post by: 83TB on October 12, 2012, 02:50:40 PM
I pulled the harness from my parts car. I noticed the red/blue wire that has a factory type push female end to connact to starter relay. the harness had two of them hook together at the plug, I split the harness and noticed one went back to a ballast resistor and on the other end of the resistor was a wire that went to ground. I started to look for this in my 83tb and only found one red/blue wire and they cut it for a starter kill for an alarm system. i am not using an alarm so i am wondering why the two wires on one harness and only one on the other? I could not find this resistor on the harness in my car. Is this going to prevent me from anything, I am using a 6al box, so any thoughts on this.
Title: ballast near starter relay
Post by: 83TB on October 12, 2012, 03:35:16 PM
Post by: 83TB on October 12, 2012, 03:35:16 PM
Title: ballast near starter relay
Post by: softtouch on October 12, 2012, 04:48:56 PM
Post by: softtouch on October 12, 2012, 04:48:56 PM
It's a diode. It protects the ignition switch contact that goes to the starter relay from arcing.
Starting with the 86 EVTM they show it built into the relay
Starting with the 86 EVTM they show it built into the relay
Title: ballast near starter relay
Post by: 83TB on October 13, 2012, 07:42:31 AM
Post by: 83TB on October 13, 2012, 07:42:31 AM
Thanks for the information!!!