cut wire ?

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sjatm941

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74 dart sport. so i bought this car, the fuse block and seal belt interlock box hanging down , i look under the dash to see whats going on and there is this red wire just disconnected. not sure cant locate it in the manual schematics. so i go ahead and pull the gauge panel to see whats going on . for the life of me cant see where it goes. anyone ? its the red wire with black tape on the end . I taped it as its hot with the key off
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Your car probably has the heavy duty ammeter wiring, sometimes called fleet/ police/ taxi wiring. The ammeter is routed through separate grommets in the firewall with heavier wire, and the original red ammeter feed wire is taped off. I cannot tell from your photo for certain, but the two separate red/ black ammeter wires (two black, 1 red, and the cut wire) make it seem so.

A thread 'er two

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=184696

If you look at the rather convoluted diagram from the 74 manual, it shows "both," but does not make really clear how this goes

Find the ammeter, and below it "grommet" near the center of the page. This grommet is where the heavy fleet wiring is routed through the firewall. Those two large no10 wires are two shown in your photo

The original wiring, R6C--12BK is what feeds power to the interior of the car and is still used

The wire which is now unused is the one at the right side of the ammeter, going up, no A10-12R. It used to go out through the troublesome bulkhead connector, which the heavier grommet adds better integrity
 

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so 2 black wire come out of the main harness, the other two go out the fire wall , one to the alt and the other to some solenoid by the battery. then that red wire i taped comes out of the main harness. yes these come off the ammeter . so it sound like im good just to put it all back to gether and make sure the resd wire its taped off good.

Thanks

so i pulled the round plug off the back of the gauge panel to remove it , one of the prongs on the panel busted off . gotta go fin a fix for that next.
 
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