HELP! Car alarm removal gone wrong....

[HondaDriver1990]

Ok well pulled out all the old wiring for a car alarm that was in my car with no brain. I guess i pulled somthing that I needed and am looking for some help. It seems there was a wire spliced off the black/yellow wire coming from the ignition that went off and towards the plug that went into the old brain so i just cut the wire and spliced it back to the black/yellow wire leading into the fusebox were the mess of wires from the car alarm (apperntly somthing else too) ended up anyways. So now i turn the ignition switch the the first position everything has power and the dash lights are on then when i turn it to crank it nothing happends.... HELP

[FrodoGT]

Sounds like your missing your starter relay signal.

[HondaDriver1990]

The fuse for the relay isn't showing a load...

[HondaDriver1990]

Relay signal that is. Any idea what I could have done? Is it located between the black and yellow wire and the fusebox?

[HondaDriver1990]

Nvm I figured it out, somthing to do with the clutch was a wire I cut and just had to put back together. But when I had it dissconnected and just roll-started it driving around my lights would stop dimming when I had it in low rpms now it dims again. Any ideas whats going on doesn't seem like a voltage regulator problem anymore.

[Christ]

That wire is the clutch pedal safety switch.. you can disconnect it, but you must bypass it in the ignition wires.

[HondaDriver1990]

Yeah it was weird, it was like home audio wire and was just hanging down. It looked like it did nothing like alot of the other wire in my car so just cut it to free up some room. Ended up being the switch, yet all I had to do was connect the two wires on the end again, completed the circut, and it worked fine. Maybe somthing to do with the alarm since i don't think theres any other reason they'd use home audio wire or bring it near the ignition that way. I mean you'd think it would be a straight wire to complete the circut not some bojangled wire which ended up connecting with itself anyways.

[Christ]

Dude... look under your hood at that wiring harness... there are parts of your harness that go across the engine bay to connect to something, only to go back across the engine bay to report that connection to the ECU.

[HondaDriver1990]

connect to something

This doesn't connect to anything other than the other side of the speaker wire

[FrodoGT]

Well the clutch switch is literally just a normally open switch.. so yeah, connecting it back together (shorting it essentially) will allow your car to start, with or without the clutch engaged.

[FrodoGT]

It is possible that the alarm had a sort of immobilizer in it and they used the clutch switch to make it possible. Like the alarm when armed would open the circuit to the switch, making it impossible to start the car with the key. Also, they could have just cut the wires and connected them together to bypass the clutch switch to allow remote start to work? Either way you figured it out.

[HondaDriver1990]

Yeah It never had remote start. Just trying to figure out this electrical problem still. Guess I'll take advantage of this year warranty and throw another alernator in there see if that does the trick. Thanks anyhow.

[FrodoGT]

Either alt or battery... One or the other but id try the battery first. But if its under warranty replace the alternator too.. just in case.