Please be kind - I’m still learning.
I’ve owned my 2004 unlimited (standard, inline 6) for about three months. In that time I’ve had to remove wiring that PO left behind (they cut a three foot section out of lighting, but left the rest of the wires and the lights behind), replace the pre cats, o2 sensors, catalytic converter (turns out you shouldn’t be able to see straight through it), steering stabilizer, swap the hard linkage with a cable to fix the problems with the transmission after a suspension lift/transmission drop, replace a broken engine mount (the passenger side one had been replaced but the bolt on the driver side couldn’t be removed because of the ac compressor, and various (quite a few) other things. I think it was flooded at one point because the light bulbs up front had water in them, and the housing had a whole complete ecosystem in it, among other things. It was well loved - just not necessarily by someone who would (knew or learn how to) work on it themselves.
Last weekend, a friend decided he was going to mess with me and move it, and when I saw it rolling away I thought it was being stolen. So I’m running the wires today with a latching switch to interrupt the ground on the asd relay. I don’t have all the parts, so I’m JUST running the wires until I can get home and get the fuses and spade connectors. I also want to wait to the the battery cable off until I have a hard switch to shut off power to the winch.
So now that you know that background, here’s what happened:
I got under the dash to interrupt the ignition start wire, and found they cut both yellow wires with a red stripe, the blue wire with a red stripe, and spliced them together on the pcm side of the harness. At this point I’m a little out of my depth - up until now a lot of YouTube and this forum and a solid history of legos had me pretty prepared to learn how to work on my jeep. At this point I really just need someone to explain this to me like I’m five. I SUSPECT this is what contributed to blowing the asd relay a month ago - I was fixing some wiring - the drl wire has been repurposed to run the ac compressor and the radiator fan that the internet says I’m supposed to have is gone, and I’m struggling to located the correct wires upstream. Unfortunately my usual job is destruction or stopping damage rather than fixing things so I’m out of my depth.
If I can I would like to repurpose the way these wires have been cut to install a momentary switch on the starter wire - but I want to ask someone smarter than me the correct way to fix this.
I’ve owned my 2004 unlimited (standard, inline 6) for about three months. In that time I’ve had to remove wiring that PO left behind (they cut a three foot section out of lighting, but left the rest of the wires and the lights behind), replace the pre cats, o2 sensors, catalytic converter (turns out you shouldn’t be able to see straight through it), steering stabilizer, swap the hard linkage with a cable to fix the problems with the transmission after a suspension lift/transmission drop, replace a broken engine mount (the passenger side one had been replaced but the bolt on the driver side couldn’t be removed because of the ac compressor, and various (quite a few) other things. I think it was flooded at one point because the light bulbs up front had water in them, and the housing had a whole complete ecosystem in it, among other things. It was well loved - just not necessarily by someone who would (knew or learn how to) work on it themselves.
Last weekend, a friend decided he was going to mess with me and move it, and when I saw it rolling away I thought it was being stolen. So I’m running the wires today with a latching switch to interrupt the ground on the asd relay. I don’t have all the parts, so I’m JUST running the wires until I can get home and get the fuses and spade connectors. I also want to wait to the the battery cable off until I have a hard switch to shut off power to the winch.
So now that you know that background, here’s what happened:
I got under the dash to interrupt the ignition start wire, and found they cut both yellow wires with a red stripe, the blue wire with a red stripe, and spliced them together on the pcm side of the harness. At this point I’m a little out of my depth - up until now a lot of YouTube and this forum and a solid history of legos had me pretty prepared to learn how to work on my jeep. At this point I really just need someone to explain this to me like I’m five. I SUSPECT this is what contributed to blowing the asd relay a month ago - I was fixing some wiring - the drl wire has been repurposed to run the ac compressor and the radiator fan that the internet says I’m supposed to have is gone, and I’m struggling to located the correct wires upstream. Unfortunately my usual job is destruction or stopping damage rather than fixing things so I’m out of my depth.
If I can I would like to repurpose the way these wires have been cut to install a momentary switch on the starter wire - but I want to ask someone smarter than me the correct way to fix this.
) then you can set up a kill switch. Here’s a link to what some have done. 
