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Ign wiring

Mike Rehtus

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Cumming Ga
Installing new ignition switch determined yellow is power to batt input , red/blue is start output to start relay, green/brown to ign run. Have a purple wire and red wire that run to brake light and a purple wire that runs to brakes how does this all tie together?
 
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DirtDonk

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Hey Mike, welcome to CB! Lot of pains with ignition switch wiring in the recent past it seems. What year is your Bronco by the way?
On some, there is a red wire that goes to what's called an "Ambient Switch" somewhere. I think that's a '72 year only thingy though.

The Purple wire (sometimes Purple w/white) goes from the ignition switch (the little side terminal all by itself I think) straight down to the frame mounted H-block for the brakes. The other Violet wire that comes out of the connector on the H-block goes back to the dash "BRAKE" light, and then splices into the Green w/red wire from the ignition switch too.
That same big Green w/red wire should connect to the center post of the switch, if I'm not mistaken. Should be obvious though, if it's got that big ring-terminal on the end.

That Green w/brown is probably just a faded red stripe. Should be Green w/red. Some years it's Pink. Either way, and for future reference, that's your resistor wire to the ignition. It's a "resistor" only between the key and the firewall. Once in the engine compartment, it's just a regular wire.

Hope that helps.

Paul
 
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