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Old Oct 20, 2004 | 11:32 PM
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Overdrive Solenoid Color Code? Need Help!

Anybody out there know which wire goes to which on the 65 Ford Warner Overdrive Solenoid. The harness has two blue wires. One has a yellow stripe I believe. There are two colored wires coming out of the solenoid. Does it matter which way they go? I dont want to blow anything. I imagine these solenoids are expensive...

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Old Oct 21, 2004 | 01:55 PM
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My wireing diagram showes Blue to the relay on the firewall ( blue )
and the orange wire to the kickdown switch ( blue/orange )

blue wire at the solinoid on the tranys is the voltage from the firewall relay

the orange wire is to kill the ing whan you use the kickdown switch.

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Old Oct 22, 2004 | 12:58 AM
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Duh!!! I guess I sould have realized the stripe thing. I figured thats how it should be but I wanted to be sure. I think the wires were backwards when I removed them. I hope if they were that it didnt burn up anything!

As I said in another post that trans has to be the heaviest, hard to handle 3 spd in existence. I thought it was going to whip me and my helper.

Thanks so much for the help!
 
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