Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Not sure why they wired a 4 prong setup in a 71 harness, should of done the two prong. Because they can't guess if buyer will use 4 or 5 pins ECU
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Yes just use your 2 terminal ballast & in Supercudas' diagram the ECU main feed (#2) will be blue/yellow and the (#3) unused pigtail will be green/red. You may need to reverse #4 and #5, see where your timing/phasing is when you go to start it. EDIT corrected, the #1 main feed will be blue/yellow
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Not sure why they wired a 4 prong setup in a 71 harness, should of done the two prong. Because they can't guess if buyer will use 4 or 5 pins ECU I'd like to see where someone can still get a functional 5 pin ECU.
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Standard lx100 is one example... some Mopar replacements still available, some other aftermarket pieces. Still plenty out there.
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Thanks to everyone so far. Now I need to check the colors on the harness and compare it with the diagram. In the meantime M&H answered. They suggested to just use a 4-prong resistor, nothing else needs to be modified.
A green lead with red tracer is coming out of the bulkhead connector and feeds the second half of the 4-prong resistor. It seems it was connected with something on my old harness. If I understand it correctly this one will be not used without a 5-pin ECU. So why is it there at all on a 71 (and earlier?) car?
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Thanks to everyone so far. Now I need to check the colors on the harness and compare it with the diagram. In the meantime M&H answered. They suggested to just use a 4-prong resistor, nothing else needs to be modified.
A green lead with red tracer is coming out of the bulkhead connector and feeds the second half of the 4-prong resistor. It seems it was connected with something on my old harness. If I understand it correctly this one will be not used without a 5-pin ECU. So why is it there at all on a 71 (and earlier?) car? 71 and earlier cars did not come with 4 prong ballasts or electronic ignition, which is the reason I was wondering why M&H put that style setup in your harness. It was eliminated for a reason years ago by the two prong setup.
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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That's interesting, I just installed a Year One(M&H) harness on my wife's 440 Six Pack 71 R/T Challenger. I also bought the modified harness for big block with electronic ignition and mine came set up for the 2 prong ballast resister. https://www.yearone.com/Product/Challenger-Cuda/HU117NMBe careful installing the wiring harness connector into the firewall bulkhead, the plastic on the M&H harness is extremely brittle. I also ordered the forward light wiring harness and one of the ears on the connector was broken when it arrived and the other ear broke off when I tried to squeeze it in. The plastic connectors on the M&H wiring harnesses are very cheap and brittle compared to the factory connectors.
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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KillerCuda: Thanks for the hint! I will take care. Have bought several harnesses and haven't inspected them yet...
I have ordered and not yet received a similar engine harness for my 70 Challenger. I wonder if that one will have 2-prong or 4-prong connectors.
Here is the answer from M&H if I could use a 2-prong BR with their harness: "We just always encourage our customers to use the dual ballast resistor to prevent confusion. If using the single ballast, one side should include the brown and dark blue wire connection." They tend to answer very quickly, so thumbs up for their support!
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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If using the single ballast, one side should include the brown and dark blue wire connection." Partially true... just on cars with still mech voltage regulators Since Mopar began to use electronic regulator, the brown and blue wires spliced together become on two brown wires spliced together, because the coil + lead wire become brown like the one coming from ign switch, not anymore blue
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Here is a pic of the ballast resistor of my Bee with the new M&H harness connected. As you can see the connectors are set up for the 4-prong br (have plastic shoes that incorporate two wires each). As you can see on the upper left are the brown and blue wires that are needed. Bottom left is that green with red tracer wire that goes to the ECU and is not used on a 4-pin ECU. So this one can be left off. On the right are two identical blue wires. Are these spliced together somewhere in the harness? Will it matter which one of them I use? I understand that I only need both of the blue wires if I use the green w red tracer. So while not pretty the engine should run the way I have the harness connected to the BR. I will change the plastic shoes to single ones and isolate and hide the leftover ones. To further confuse things the same engine harness has another (factory correct) green w red tracer wire that is used for the horns.
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Re: Which ballast resistor on modified Yearone harness?
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Doesn't matter which blue wire you use, both come from same splice. Originally in fact the two blue wires are really just one coming from the splice and then a jumper wire between both prongs. A green lead with red tracer is coming out of the bulkhead connector and feeds the second half of the 4-prong resistor. It seems it was connected with something on my old harness. If I understand it correctly this one will be not used without a 5-pin ECU. So why is it there at all on a 71 (and earlier?) car? Sorry missed this post Yes, horn wire is also green traced red but usually a diff green shade from factory, darker to the horn. Maybe not on the new replacement harnesses. As you can see now, the green traced red up to ballast is not the one coming from bulkhead, but from ECU. I can see you still got the correct blue and brown wires up to ballast to the year of the car even is upgraded to elect regulator. This mean you are getting two bluw wires up to ghe front of the engine, one with eyelet terminal to the coil and one with packard terminal up to alt field. This wasn't anymore on that way on originally elect reg cars, where the coil wire was changed to brown to make the diff from the alt field wire at the front of the engine
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