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Subject:Syncro Differential Lock Switch Wire
From:Budd Premack
Date:Sat, 8 Apr 2000 01:18:03 -0500

In my continuing effort to identify an orphan wire on my 86 Syncro, I have
narrowed my search to to the differential lock switch.  Since my van came
originally with a diff lock, but has since had the tranny rebuilt without
the diff lock, I can't tell if the orphan wire was originally connected to
the diff lock.

The wire is actually two wires in a black sleeve that end in a female
connector.  One wire is brown, the other is brown with a blue stripe on each
side.  The wire emerges from the main wiring harness near the accelerator
cable at the front of the engine compartment.  It is about 2 feet long,
which is long enough to reach the diff lock.

Can anyone with a Syncro please check that wire, or anything else that seems
likely, and let me know if my hunch is correct.

Alternately, could I just jump the two wires together and see if the
indicator light on the dash panel lights up?  (That would be the easy way,
wouldn't it?)

Budd Premack
86 Syncro, 73 Super
Minneapolis, MN (Land of Sky-Blue Waters)

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