Steering column wiring

[Ozyduster]

I am currently rebuilding the steering column and I am changing from column auto to floor shift auto.
Are there any wires in the column that i need to re rout for this in relation to neutral safety switch and reverse lights.
I stripped my car years ago so cant just look at the current wiring.

Also i have a new indicator loom and mech should i use this or try keep the original. Anything to watch out for. Whilst i am at it should i change ignition switch or are the aftermarket ones rubbish?

 

[Clelan]

The NSS and back up lights do not go through the column. They go straight to the transmission on an auto car. I have always had better luck with the original switches than anything but NOS originals.

Cley

 

[Dave999]

[edit] what he said quicker than me

i think your neutral safety switch is usually a roller ball or pin type switch running on a detent in the trans or on the linkage, i might be wrong i have a manual car, but i think its already under the car 3 wire harness, white switch unit on a bracket on a borgwarner 35 in an aussie car.... presume similar execution on US TF904/727

the only one i know about is the orange wire for the light in the shift indicator.
on an aircon car it sometimes also feeds the blue hooded stand alone bulb that shines through the airtemp controller buttons....

i.e you wont need it for the selector/quadrant illumination if you swap out the column but it could stay if you didn't

you could connect it as an indicator of something else like ...reverse, provided you are not sharing it with an aircon controller bulb.

 

[Ozyduster]

The NSS and back up lights do not go through the column. They go straight to the transmission on an auto car. I have always had better luck with the original switches than anything but NOS originals.

Cley

O thats great as some of the Ozy cars i have built the switches are on the shifter not the box. That makes it easy!! Had a feeling that the new stuff may not be great. I have a whole new loom thats a reconditioned original loom for that very reason

 

[Dave999]

when i say aussie car i'm talking of a valiant rather the ford of holden and my experience is VG VH VJ which kinda follow the 1967 dodge dart

valiants had Borg warner 35 TF904 and a few had TF727 in the Later VH VJ range (borg warner strike, no 35s to be had)

they called the borg warner 35 a "torqueflite C" in the factory manual kinda like some kind of marketing BS.

all of them had to fit in the same place with a minimum of grief.
id expect, but can not confirm, that the wiring and potentially the switch was the same, and really all you were getting was a mirror image 1967 dodge dart, different outer panels, with a US configured drive line and floor pan, expect commonality with US models, bar the emissions equipment.

dave

 

[Ozyduster]

when i say aussie car i'm talking of a valiant rather the ford of holden and my experience is VG VH VJ which kinda follow the 1967 dodge dart

valiants had Borg warner 35 TF904 and a few had TF727 in the Later VH VJ range (borg warner strike, no 35s to be had)

they called the borg warner 35 a "torqueflite C" in the factory manual kinda like some kind of marketing BS.

all of them had to fit in the same place with a minimum of grief.
id expect, but can not confirm, that the wiring and potentially the switch was the same, and really all you were getting was a mirror image 1967 dodge dart, different outer panels, with a US configured drive line and floor pan, expect commonality with US models, bar the emissions equipment.

dave

Yep only ever messed about with old Holdens etc where the switches are in the column etc not at the box. This makes life a whole lot easier then, thought was going to have to do some re wiring