CJ Wiring Question

[Rescue Diver]

I got a 83 the wiper wires pass up under the cowl seal.There's a slotted hole where they go threw below the motor.Feed them up threw the hole behind the dash.You'll have to have the window down to see the hole then strait to the motor.

So the flat red/yellow/green wiper motor wire ribon goes under the cowel seal and through a hole that's directly under the motor through the cowel?

I'd almost rather drill a hole in the dash behind the dash pad to run them through so it doesn't interfere with the seal. Being a fiberglass tub, the cowel is pretty weak and sags without the dash bolted up to hold it straight. I'm doing everything I can to try and make a good seal so I don't have leaks. If it does still leak in the rain, I might just silicone the seal to the cowel and just live without being able to put the windshield down. That will be a last resort because I really like that feature when just going slow through the woods or at the drive in.

 

[dslywalker]

Yours is a 79 it could run different but mine doesn't interfer with sealing.I'd say run them the way you want unless someone else can chime in that has a 79.
Did you find a place on the ignition switch thats mounted on the steering column to put the flat plug with yellow wires.The one in the big bundle joins in the fuse block the other to the ignition switch according to the print

 

[Rescue Diver]

Yours is a 79 it could run different but mine doesn't interfer with sealing.I'd say run them the way you want unless someone else can chime in that has a 79.
Did you find a place on the ignition switch thats mounted on the steering column to put the flat plug with yellow wires.The one in the big bundle joins in the fuse block the other to the ignition switch according to the print

My Jeep is titled as a 79, but the fiberglass tubs are universal and the wiring harness is out of a later year because it has plastic fuses. The wiper motor and wires for a 79 should be exactly the same as an 83.

I don't believe there's any other place to plug anything in on the column. The plug with yellow wires just has a pair of female plugs that are in line with each other. I don't think it's for a tach, and even if it is, my under hoos harness doesn't have a wire for a tach. When I get around to installing a tach, I'll just run my own wire from the distributor and maybe find an unused wire that goes through the fuse box like maybe the AC compressor wire. That way I don't have to drill a separate hole in the firewall for it.

I'm running an HEI distributor. The ignition wire in the under hood harness is red with a white stripe. I think it's a heavy enough gauge wire to feed it. The factory ignition had wires spliced off the ignition wire to go to the coil and ignition module. It's nice to have the clean one wire setup!

 

[thetank]

i have no idea where the two yellow ones go but the other two co into the plug on top of your column next to the fire wall...but they could be extra since mine is an auto tilt column you may not need them

 

[thetank]

the two yellow ones go to a switch on the gas pedal...just checked mine....if you need it i can take pics and show you

 

[Southern Jeeper]

I've been working on it again tonight and I've isolated most of the under hood wires. Back to the under dash stuff I haven't identified, I actually have three plugs I'm not sure about. There's the two solid yellow long wires that go to a flat plug, and a white with black stripe and a red going to a flat plug, and the last one is two solid blue wires that go to a square plug.

Here's a pic of them.

I'm having the same exact problem with just the blue and yellow plugs did you ever find out where they went?