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Old July 17th, 2018, 05:20 PM
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1972 cutlass wiring

The starter wires going down to solinoid one is resister one is starter there is a black wire a little higher up what is it for ?
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Besides the battery cable there are 2 other wires, the purple for start and the yellow is the resistance wire bypass that runs to the coil+ terminal. Don't know what the black wire is, someone may have added a ground to the starter. Can you follow it and see where it runs to?
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