Don't connect either PS switch lead to ground. That is not how it works, at least not on 2.1 models. Doing that could short out the power lead from the ECU relay. The way the PS switch works is it has one lead that gets power from the ECU relay whenever the key is on and the other lead sends a signal to the ICU relay. Neither lead is ground. There is no tan or brown wire to the PS switch in any case. They may look tan from dirt and age but early years had 2 white wires while later years had wires with stripes. Mark Frank Condelli wrote: >In a message dated 16/12/2005 6:43:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, >LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes: > >Where does the tan ground to on the alternator? > > > >Chris, the tan wire from the harness to the alternator does not go to the >alternator. It goes to the power steering pump sensor switch. That sensor has >two contacts. One contact, does not matter which one, is for that wire from >the harness, the other contact is for another tan wire which goes to the >alternator body on one of the small studs around the perimeter usually the one >closest to the switch and also has the receptacle for the flywheel timing >indicator, that no one uses, bolted to it. That is the ground source for the >power steering pump switch..... > |
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