Flyin'Brian

I didn't want to pull the wheel and run a wire from outside for my shift light, so I did some research in the service manual and found a better closer place to connect.
Here are some pictures. Hope these help someone!!

Remove bottom of dash


IC plug that this harness feeds. You can see in the pic of the plug what all the other wires do


This is the harness that the wire is in


A look at all the wires in the harness


Here the wire is isolated from the rest


A close up of the White tach signal wire. there are 3 small 18g white wires, but I noticed that the one that we need is a little bit off white (like bone white?... they may not all be like that





[Modified by Flyin'Brian, 12:25 PM 8/2/2003]

66ImpalaLT1

You're much more persistant than me. I gave up and wired my shift light at the pcm.

Eric :cheers:

FunDriver

I also wired mine from the pcm but last week I was helping out a guy out and he was sucessful in wiring it to a white wire on the passenger side, which saves a whole heck of a lot of time and energy. It's not that much fun to go clear to the pcm. In my case it was even harder because I didn't have one wire long enough and the plastic wire connectors broke two wires---and splicing the wires was tough because it's in a small space and the wires are so short that there's not much to splice.

So in the end, it looks like going to the passenger side, carefully cutting open the bundled wires, looking for the right white wire out of three, and going from there seems to be a good way to go. The above also seems like an alternative, though I'm not too sure about my ability to start pulling apart the dash. But good pictures. I may print them out and see if I can use them next time.

Patches

Excellent, Brian. You get the award for tapping in the closest of anyone. :cheers: That is a perfect spot to tap in to and makes the most sense.

Great job! :thumbs:

GraveDigger

Good job. That will make it much easier.
:cheers:

wstory1

:cool: :cheers:

intel55

:cool: that is much easier than going into the wheel well and splicing or cutting into those tiny wires. :cheers:

Racer

IF you can find it as easily as Brian did. :D :cheers:

Highroller

Where were you last week when I was under the passenger side of my car with a soldering gun? Nice job :rofl:

aaaaa

Me too! I was upside down for hours :crazy:

AllCammedUp

This is excellent - Thanks!! :cheers: goes to you for getting this information to everyone

Flyin'Brian

TTT For people that missed it :)

ryan0

whats the test to make sure you have the correct wire?

Face

This should be put in tech tips. :cheers:

tlaselva

:iagree:

Spent hours connecting my two Raptor S/Lights.
Most of the work was wiring to the PCM.
This will make installing shift lights very easy.

Good work! :thumbs:

George Cooper

"whats the test to make sure you have the correct wire?"

Flyin'Brian

I just used the Raptor shift light to test it, set it to 1500 RPM and probed the wire and rev it a little to see if light comes on, and if not then try next one until I found the right one.
The other white wires are for Headlamps on input, Illuminated display signal and Skip shift indicator lamp output. Because none of these things were active while I was testing for it, I wasn't too worried about shorting the light out with voltage.



[Modified by Flyin'Brian, 10:05 AM 8/14/2003]

ICULUKN-C5

awesome.... :cheers:

GOOSE JR.

Thanks for the great fix. GOOSE

RoadRebel

Let add 1 thing.
A lot of cars have the same color (White) for all three.
The easy way to test which on you need is by using a regular test light connected to ground. With the key in the run posistion. Probe each wire. You will find when you probe the tach wire it will pulse the tach when you probe it. If its one of the other white wire you will see dash indicator lights turn on..one being the skip shift, I forgot the other.

Phil