Can Anyone Help Identify These?

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SassyGrassScamp

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There are a few wires in the engine compartment on my '71 Scamp and I have no idea what they are. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

This one is on the battery tray (left) side, front of the engine bay and is bolted to the top left radiator bolt
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Same wire as above showing the connector from the front of the radiator support
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This one comes from the negative side of the battery and is connected to the firewall, and doesn't look OEM to me
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Hey, I found you... here you are!!

neither one of those look stock. The ground wire coming from the battery definitely not.... Also, the other one looks like it has a crimp-on lug with a yellow plastic insulator where it bolts onto the body... that is definitely not OEM.
 
well the one on the radiator looks like the one on my dart for the turn signal except mine is on the front side of the rad support.

as for the other one idk but it could be because its an old cable so previous owner tried to help it out the cheap way instead of getting a new bat cable?

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both are ground wires that someone changed the ends on. Since your grille is plastic, that is the ground wire for the turn signal light. Normally there is a push on terminak on the socket. I think yours is rotted off or broken, cannot tell by the photo. Other wire on battery is a ground to the body. should be black.
 
From experience, with a 70 Duster that I bought new, and am going through;
Crimp goes to crap. Crimp and solder. and shove some di-electric grease in there. Use electronic solder, it has no acids.
Grounds go bad;grind and use di-electric grease.Also, You can't have enough big grounds.
When you clean terminals, use sandpaper, baking soda, then contact cleaner, then di-electric.
If you see any green corrosion on a wire- the whole wire is shot, you just won't know it until it strands you ( and still ohms good).
And again, those grounds may ohm, and look good; they are lying sacks of shyt.
 
And if you saw some recent threads in here.
Battery moved by several, some batteries not moved..
A redundant neg battery cable hooked from engine to frame (you can get a solderable eyelet from Napa or ace hardware to replace the battery terminal end) works pretty good.
 
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