Replacing Ignition Switch

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osxdos

osxdos

72' Duster / 360
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Okay I got the duster out today winter is over I got to replace ignition switch that I haven't did yet, so we went out and bought one yesterday from AutoZone or advanced well the one that I got it looks the same and everything but it's got six wires on instead of 5 it's got two Blacks are they both ground?

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I expect you will find a orange wire going to column shift indicator lamp in the cars harness connector in the port where the new switch connector has a added black wire. Notice that orange wire comes down from the lamp fixture and not in with the switch wires. Anyway, Put it together as is will blow a fuse.
Easy method... Cut the orange wire out. Make that connection with one each male and female spade terminals beside the original connectors. This allows the extra black wire to dead end in that switch connector, isolated, out of harms way.
If you would rather unlatch the terminals of extra black and the orange, move wire terminals to different ports in these connectors, match the colors.
 
Lol opps, nobody message me fast enough and I was right in the daylight I don't have a shop light so look this is what I ended up doing I left the bottom harnessrs under the dash hooked up and I did notice the orange wire so I left the orange wire alone everything at the end of the ignition switch the harness I left all alone, on the new I cut it I cut the wires about 6 inches down from Switch and I tied in to the existing colors of the last ignition switch I tied into the five different colors so what I have left right now is that thick *** black wire that came with the the new Switch what do I do with it just cut it
 
Just tape it up so it doesn't short to ground I guess.
I hope you made quality splices. There's a heck of a lot of current traveling some of these wires. Enough to melt the OEM connectors in some cases. More than half the fuse box ( everything hot in run ) gets it power from these wires.
 
I think I did it wrong this big black one right here I think should be hooked up and not the small black one this small black one is the same size as the orange one right and it goes it went directly into the harness this black woman this this big fat black one has the connection at the end that looks like it should have went into the the hardest if I wanted it to
 
Yeah It only make sense that that smaller black wire that's same size as the the orange wire is the one that shouldn't be connected. I switched it over the the bigger gauge black wire
 
I have the same new ignition switch with an extra black wire (smaller). I'm installing a whole new aftermarket wiring harness (EZ Wiring). As I read it there isn't a second black so I'm not using it, cut it and shrink wrapped the end.

I'll be looking to start the car up this weekend, I'll see if there are any issues then.
 
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