Thread: Help with identity of wires

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Often, RAVE is useful here. One goes to the electrical diagrams and searches for the wire colour, e.g., W, LGY, or GN.

If, for example, it was a a 1995 RRC, RAVE tells me that LGY and GN go to the transfer case position switch which controls the start interlock relay.

Is the W wire plain white or does it have a stripe, e.g., purple? There is a WP and W wire pair that are associated with that circuit but I wouldn't expect them down there. I'm pretty sure W is a fused ignition controlled circuit.

However, connector C368 in RAVE doesn't match your picture - not does it's wiring match the RAVE circuit diagram so I can't be certain. The switch (X175) location seems to match. See pic.

RRC Transfer Case wiring.jpg RRC Transfer Case.JPG

Thanks mate. Should have said it's a 01 d2 with retrofit internals in the output housing. Cheers

connector appears to be C0685 which goes to the top of transfer box.
Switch transmission High Low

What's strange, according to RAVE, is that the wire colours are listed as RK(red/pink) BG(black/green).

Looking at your photo too, the connector holder is the bent black looking item in the background at the leading edge of the top of the transfer case. The connector sits in the middle spade bit.

page 560 in the electrical library.

Originally Posted by ozscott

Should have said it's a 01 d2 with retrofit internals in the output housing. Cheers

Did you do the job using the original housing or did you get an exchange? If exchange, it could explain the odd colours - but see my last para. As noted by AK83, the colours in my copy of RAVE for the 2000 D2 with EAT are RK and B (not BG). Did you double check the colours on the white wires?

However, as you'll see from the connector C0685 pix (attached) from the D2 RAVE, the wires from the switch could be LGY and GN. They certainly look like it.

C0685.JPG

I think it doesn't matter what colours those wires themselves are. That's just the plug to the high/low inhibitor switch. (part No. IGM100000)

The plug that it connects too(ie. C0685) is what you're trying to locate.
This is where the red/pink wire info it important.
Find that plug with that wire colour and you should be OK.
That plug end then takes those red/pink and black(or black and black/green) wire to the BCU.

RAVE_C0685.jpg

This is from whatever RAVE version Dave sells.
The way I'm seeing it tho it's not particularly important if the wire at pin 3 is just the black one(as in p38arover's RAVE) or the black and black/green one as my version of RAVE says.

Looking at the earth distribution page in the electrical library the black/green wire is just an earth path from the BCU.
That black earth wire just goes back to the earth connector C0552 under the centre console.

So the other end of the connector that you're looking for will be

1/. red/pink wire + either a single black wire
2/. red/pink wire + black wire and black and green wire piggy backed onto it.

Yep. The bigger question is - why isn't it connected?

Thanks guys. Wracking my brains...was so long ago that I did my output housing. The centre diff is newish very low k unit from Hong Kong. Cheers

IMO, the open plug(hi/low switch) should connect to the other at the top which seems connected to a plug with a cut wiring, the other wires are unused, it's the circuit for the "transfer box in neutral" input used only on NAS automatics.