I have an original column shift car that I installed an original console shifter in console into including the original lighting and neutral safety switch harness. I'm ready to integrate that harness into my Dash harness but I'm not sure where to splice into. There's basically grey orange and green wires that come from the different light bulbs and then there's two thick purple wires that come from the neutral safety switch. Where do those purple wires connect to. I don't have two thick purple wires on the dash harness so I'm not sure where they connect to.
When I did my 69 Skylark I left the neutral safety switch on the column, and used the wires that turn on the courtesy lights to tie in with the light on the back of the console and headlight wire for the shifter lighting. I’m sure there’s a pigtail somewhere that the harness just connect to but I couldn’t find it on mine.
First picture is the connector it goes to the original steering column. Second picture are the wires coming from the console.
If you have a functioning neutral safety switch on your existing column, why not just leave it as is?
All the neutral safety switch does is interrupt the purple wire between the ignition switch and starter solenoid.
When I had the issue with the shorted reverse light wire, I traced the dash harness to the console, and I don't think that there was any plug-in harness for the neutral safety/reverse light switch. It was part of the dash harness. I'm pretty sure that there were 2 dash harnesses used, one for column shift cars and one for floor shift cars. The plug for the console light harness was also part of the dash harness that came to the console.
Yeah, there is no simple plug in. I would just wire the lighting up and call it a day. No need to do anything with the 2 purple wires.
I thought about that but since I'm going to eventually swap a console shifted steering column in to complete the changeover I had to figure something out to wire in the safety switch on the console shifter. I located the connectors with the two purple wires (NSS starter interrupt) and the one with the pink and green wire (reverse lights) that connect fo the original NSS mounted on the steering column and cut them and spliced into the console harness. Works perfectly. Now I just need to splice in the lights; the gray wires from the shift indicator section of the console and the white and orange for the courtesy lamp on the rear of the console. The orange and white I'll splice into the under dash courtesy lights somewhere but I'm not sure where to attach the gray wire which basically needs to go on when the headlights go on. I have a green wire that comes off the headlight switch that I spliced my aftermarket gauge cluster into so they light with the headlights. Maybe I'll just splice the gray wire into that too?
Pull the neutral safety switch off the steering column and lengthen the wires with the connector on the end connect to console bracket
Great suggestion. I actually would have done that had I not had a NSS already on the shifter properly adjusted from the factory.
