Mystery wire???

[Jon411]

So I replaced my tranny, car is a 85 New Yorker 2.2 Turbo automatic. On the bad tranny I pulled out of the car there is a green ground wire bolted to the top center of the tranny that came disconnected from the harness and I cant figure out where is goes back into it. Does anyone know or have any pictures of where it goes??

[pobort]

do you have pics of this mystery wire?

[detobias]

sounds like the trans "ground wire"

poking around the harness just above that spot should find you the other end of that ; other wise u could fab another wire trans <=> body or ignore it in TD fashion

[Jon411]

That could be. I am currently out of town until Thursday for work so I wont be able to check until then. Well heres the problem my buddy thinks it goes to what would be a neutral safety switch on a manual (not sure what its called on a automatic) but my car will randomly not start like it has a dead batterie but the batterie has 13+ volts and is new then I put it in neutral and it starts...

But I will put a picture up once I get back into town of the wire on the old trannie.

Thanks a bunch guys any advice helps.

[IROCNOROLL]

The older 3 speed automatic has a three wire switch assy. Neutral safety / power / reverse. The older manual trans has a 2 wire for the reverse light switch only.

If you have to move the gear selector to neutral to start the engine, you probably have the shifter cable mis-adjusted, and are not fully engaging the "Park" position. The neutral safety switch uses the same wires for "park" or "neutral".