I’m back working on my 98 , it has electrical gremlins. I pulled the gauges and a blue wire fell away from the right connector. I’m having a hell of a time removing the metal pin from the plastic connector to put it back and recrimp it then I started to wonder if it’s even factory wiring. I pulled another batch of old aftermarket wiring out of the dash today that appeared to be part of an aftermarket light system from a previous owner. These two wires are outside of the cloth taped harness , however they originate from the cloth taped harness too. I could use some guidance. The green tape is just there to keep the wire out of the clutch pedal. This the way I got this jeep.
Can someone help identify this wiring?
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I'm not sure what all should be in that bundle, but if you check section 8W-80 in the FSM you'll find the connector pinouts. You can check the colors against what you have and figure out if what you have is factory or if bubba has been in there. I would start there.
Looks to me to be cavity 3 (Light Blue with White tracer) and 4 (Dark Blue with Light Green tracer). Maybe someone put a hard top on before they sold it and they were only worried about wiring the defrosters when they had installed the hard top? I noticed you have a soft top on there that looks relatively new, did you get it with a soft or hard top?
Did you ever find the ground wire for Cavity 9 somewhere in the Harness?? The Black with Light Green tracer on it?? I know you were having trouble with this connector earlier this month! If it helps to track it, the same exact ground wire is on the other cluster connector so you might be able to cut open the loom and trace it that way
Did you ever find the ground wire for Cavity 9 somewhere in the Harness?? The Black with Light Green tracer on it?? I know you were having trouble with this connector earlier this month! If it helps to track it, the same exact ground wire is on the other cluster connector so you might be able to cut open the loom and trace it that way
The 1st and 2nd pictures indicate that your Jeep had the TSB performed by a dealership which was the replacement of the Instrument Cluster BUSS connector(s) due to microscopic black specs (oxidation on connector clips).
When I got this jeep it had remnants of a soft top. The hard top was long gone. This jeep does have the switches for the wiper and defroster for a hard top though. As far as the ground wire for cavity nine , thank you for that. I will try to find that wire. I didn’t receive any notification on my last post so I must’ve missed that. My end goal here is to get the check engine light to go off. I have replaced numerous crank and cam sensors only to have the same code come back on. So I am looking at all wiring and ground issues. Removing old dead wiring from previous , alarms / whatever was installed in this jeep at one point. At least most of the splicing was soldered. Which makes undoing it a little harder.
Does anyone know how to de-pin the wires from the connector? I bought a group of tools off of Amazon, and spent a good couple hours trying to remove the metal pin that the wire came out of.
Pretty much return your jeep back to how it should be and fix issues other people thought would be a cure to every problem but just made stuff harder. My PO did the same thing so 70% of my wiring is messed up. He cut a wire going from the engine bay fuse box and then ran house wire through the jeep to my cluster to make it work. You’d have to smack it really hard when it went out and it worked again. Then to make the radio work they just tapped another 2 fuses in the glove box and didn’t even connect the ground to anything. Just fix your issues the right way and it save you and so many others a huge headache!!
I’ve never actually done it myself on this particular connector but I’m sure It’s like all the others. I’m not sure if 98’ has those stupid red locking tabs on the back of the connector.
Here’s your FSM directions but also here’s a visual representation of the actual pin itself. Hopefully you find something in these pictures that may help you. If not you can just reply back in this thread and I’ll try to help you further
I’ve never actually done it myself on this particular connector but I’m sure It’s like all the others. I’m not sure if 98’ has those stupid red locking tabs on the back of the connector.
Here’s your FSM directions but also here’s a visual representation of the actual pin itself. Hopefully you find something in these pictures that may help you. If not you can just reply back in this thread and I’ll try to help you further
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