*Need help on how to wire up a switch panel*
schematic I have is that the blue goes to the instruments, etc, but also to the firewall connector, and then from there, a brown wire goes to the coil.
The brown looks like it goes to the neutral safety switch, so since it's hooked with the yellow wire, is only getting power when the starter button is pressed. The way I have it hooked up, the brown is hot only on start (same with yellow)..
The above is not correct for factory
The blue run comes from the key, supplies instruments, goes through the bulkhead, and to the regulator and ignition "run" that is, key side of the ballast
Yellow comes from key "start" through bulkhead goes ONLY to one of push connectors of start relay
Brown comes from key "start" SEPARATE, through bulkhead, to coil + side of ballast
The "other brown"?? coming UP from NSS from trans does NOT go through bulkhead, but goes to other push on terminal of start relay
IF YOU tie the yellow start and the brown which goes to coil/ ballast together, the ignition run voltage will feed back to the tie point, back on the yellow to the start relay, and if you are in park or neutral, with put a LOAD on the ignition system. If you run with "no ballast" it will engage the starter. You MUST separate those two circuits
I have a Ford starter relay mounted in the trunk because I moved the battery and put in a master shut off switch, so the starting system is already altered. How does this change things?.
I don't see that this wiring should have an impact
Maybe I'll consider that Jeep relay. Looks like the easiest solution. Could I run the red to the Batt terminal on the relay, then a wire from the BAL terminal to the coil and call it a day?
If you run this relay, here's how things would go:
Run the yellow from your start button to the push on marked I
Run your NSS switch to the push on marked G
Hook the big stud up just as your old one was, use it for a junction
Hook the center marked EGR/ SOL to the same wire that went to the starter solenoid on the old relay. You'll have to change the connector to a push on type
The "BAL" one in the corner goes to the + side of the coil.
Red? Is this the power feed to the new switch panel? If so, yes, goes to the stud. I'd put a fuse link in there, or a big fuse, depending on how much "else" you have hooked to the panel.