femurphy77
Active member
O.k. boys and girls, this one is going to take a little effort on somebodys part if you don't mind. I am buttoning up my head replacement project and one of the many jury rigs a previous owner installed on this car, a '92 LT1, involved the replacement of the apparently shattered alternator electrical connector with some hillbilly home built wiring harness that involves three pink butt splices pushed over the prongs on the alternator where there should be a formed plug. My shop manual doesn't match what is on the car so here is the part that requires effort. Is anybody willing to pop the hood on their '92 to check the orientation of the alternator wires? This will probably involve unplugging the pigtail connector to confirm position of the 3 wires. What I have, there are 4 wires total going to the alternator. One large gauge red that is the battery lead, its probably a #10, it's off by itself, no problem with this one. The factory three wire plug has a smaller gauge red wire, probably a #12, a smaller still brown and a likewise small pink with black stripe wire. Those two are probably #16 gauge. What I need to know is the orientation of the two smaller gauge wires. Is the plug wired red, brown, pink/black? Or red, pink/black, brown? I'm afraid I'll burn something up if I get it wrong even with a 50/50 shot of getting it right. Thanks for your effort. No onto researching the dreaded Opti replacement. Frank, Indy
