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Anyone know what this wire is for/does in my 78 manual? It’s located on the driver side under the center console. The last owner was scary with some of the electrical work he did, so I was trying to clean it up and ended up splitting the yellow wire and am now unsure how to reattach with the little spare length I have. The resistor thing has a yellow wire on top that seems to be split 3 ways from the resistor to the radio harness. The bottom part has a brown/red 2 in 1 wire that goes to nothing, but with the length of it and the yellow connecting to the new radio harness I wonder if it was rear speaker related. Since the bottom isn’t hooked up to anything I feel like I can just cut it out and leave it, but since the top yellow wire part was more of a perpendicular attachment and hooked up to something, I don’t know if that’s a good idea. Any help is much appreciated.
Clip that plugs into the wiring harness for the new radio
Update: After looking at this more, the yellow wire is definitely the power for my radio. I ended up cutting the resistor off since I think reattaching is the best way for repair and I think it’s a capacitor for noise reduction now but I’m not sure. It’s just a wire wrapped around a stone like material. I’m still not sure what the brown/red wire is for though. The positive side was connected to the bottom end of the resistor and then the ground was connected to the frame and then the other ends of the wire were connected to nothing.
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1978 Console Wire/Resistor ID Help
