wires to nowhere...

[Richcz28]

So I installed an ord steering stabilizer and discovered a couple wires that went nowhere. The first one was jammed in between my brake lines by the power steering box. It has a flat female connector for a spade type connection? The second was hanging below the front driver side of the bumper.

Also should I have a brake sensor wire on the top of my proportioning valve? The sensor is in the valve but no connector to be found?

 

[Russell]

The connector for your brake prop valve is the one you are holding in your hand

The eyelet is a ground. Put it on the frame or firewall please!

 

[imiceman44]

The connector for your brake prop valve is the one you are holding in your hand

The eyelet is a ground. Put it on the frame or firewall please!

 

[Richcz28]

I thought the top one went to the brakes at first too, but it is much smaller than the ones I have seen that go to proportioning valves, and the connection is wrong. The top of the proportioning valve should be a round male pin sort of connection (I cant see it so I may be mistaken but every other one I have seen is round) That wire is also about 8 inches short of reaching the proportioning valve.

 

[Richcz28]

Also any guesses as to what it might be a ground for. All my lights work, including cucv blackouts and driving light.

 

[Russell]

There is an extension harness that goes between your prop valve and the connector displayed above to convert from the small pin to the female side of that flat blade terminal.

The ground is likely a redundant ground for your front lights

 

[Richcz28]

I'm going to guess the extension harness would've met that wire at the little flange with the round hole on the frame? I tried grounding the wire ( not the ground wire, but the hypothetical proportioning valve wire) to get a brake light on the dash but no such luck. Maybe this is a faulty method. The dash light is good I chEcked it with a meter and it's plugged into the circuitry right.

 

[Russell]

Yup, the two halves meet about the frame rail.

Grounding that wire should turn the brake light on in the cluster. Does the light come on when you set the park brake? The park brake and prop valve both provide a ground path for the light in parallel.

 

[Richcz28]

Thanks, I'll check the light later tonight. Any ideas on picking up one of those wires? I've been looking in the internet without much luck.

 

[imiceman44]

Thanks, I'll check the light later tonight. Any ideas on picking up one of those wires? I've been looking in the internet without much luck.

Let me see if I have any in one of my many parted trucks.
If I find it, just pay for mailing it to you.

 

[Richcz28]

No light with parking brake on

 

[Russell]

Take a multi meter and probe both sides of the light socket to ground. One side should have 12V in respect to ground, the other will not.

If you do not have 12V, then pop the instrument cluster out and trace the wire back. It should go to a pink/black wire.

 

[Richcz28]

Let me see if I have any in one of my many parted trucks.
If I find it, just pay for mailing it to you.

Cool let me know if you have one.

I've also got lmc sending me a picture of one they have supposedly that's 5$. Their illustration only had a connection at one end.

 

[Richcz28]

Wire from lmc is not a match, but I got the correct wire off a parts truck. My light works now on the parking brake pedal idk if it was random or related to missing wire.

 

[Russell]

Glad to hear it is fixed!