ignition wire

[tremblay]

I cannot seem to find the igntion wire under the dash of my car, we are putting under glow on my car and it needs to connect to it...always though it was yellow....anyways if anyone knows which one it is please tell me, it would be very appreciated, i drive a 1989 buick century limited edition 3.3L v6

thanks

[NakedDancer]

Typical power distribution/fuse block wiring diagram 1988 on according to the Hays manual

Looks like your looking for a wire that is hot only when the car has started? Anyway the wiring diagram in Hays show a few wires coming off the ignition. Red runs in (hot all the time) and pink, orange, yellow and brown run out. It says Orange is hot in the run position only and brown is hot at accy ( <-- all the way back?) and run. It doesn't specify when the pink and yellow are hot so I would gather they are hot in all stages but off. Get a testing light and find out wich are hot when you need them to be (according to the product your intalling.) I'm not an expert at reading these things, most days they give me a head ache, so proceede with caution. Btw you can get this same book at autozone for under 20 dollars: wiring diagrams are in the back of the book. If your gonna trial and error, buy some fuses first :-/


Some added info that may help. The Brown runs to your radio and wipers, the orange runs to your fan and blower, the yellow runs to your tranaxel selector switch and the pink runs to the ecm, gauges, turn signals. It looks like they all run into the fuse box then branch out to thier various systems with exception to the yellow one that doesn't state if it does or not.

[tremblay]

I'm obviously not an expert at this so what i am worried about is that i'm am going to mess something up in the process.

Is there really any danger of cutting a few wires? As long as you reconnect them it should be fine right?

[NakedDancer]

If your going to cut wires I would find out wich ones you will be using then take the negative battery cable off to prevent short circuiting anything. As long as you find a proper ground and proper hot wire for your project and tape thing up real well with electric tape afterward all should be ok. There should be some added instructions on this with glo-lights as well. Good luck and your welcomed <--(your PM).