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Thanks to all of you for helping with my wiring. I am getting a lot better at understanding the wiring diagram. I have a few last questions I need help with. I pretty much have everything connected at this point except for the heater.

1) What color should the two wires coming from the heater switch be? I think part of my confusion is that the coating on many of the old wires(coated in colored cloth) has disintegrated, and I am wondering if that is the case for these two wires.
2) My wiring harness does not have a free green wire that would go to the heater. There are three green wires plugged into a four way plug underneath the dash. Do I just need to add/plug in a green wire here? I had to do this already for my right front turn indicator.
3) I have one free green/brownstripe wire under the dash, and one free green/brown stripe wire in the engine bay near the blower motor. Which one goes to the heater, and what does the other wire go to?

Any help would greatly be appreciated,
Kevin
 
Green/brown is (or should be) power from switch to heater blower, the other motor wire goes to ground. It is likely you need a green wire from that 4-way connector to the switch as the source.
 
I am sorry to make this so difficult, but I am still greatly confused. I am trying to use the wiring diagram, but I just don't understand. There are two black wires from the switch. Are both of these wires supposed to be black? There are two wires coming from the blower motor. Are they both supposed to be black? One of these wires from the heater blower motor is an obvious ground wire since it has the same attachment on the end as the other ground wires in my harness. This I will ground to the body. I will add a green wire to the four way plug underneath the dash and attach it to one of the heater control wires. So, this leaves one green/brown stripe wire under my dash near the four way green wire plug, and another green/brown striped wire in the engine bay near the heater blower. This also leaves one wire free from the heater switch, and one free wire from the blower motor. Can you clarify this for me?
Kevin
 
the switch and the blower don't care which way you wire them - they are just hooked up in series. So, you should have green wire (power) connected to one black end of the switch. The other black end of the switch hooks up to the green brown at the dash end. Then the green brown end at the blower should hook up to the non ground black end of the blower, then, the other black end of the blower should go to ground. That way, you have a line - you turn on the switch, power flows from green through switch along green/brown, powers motor and grounds to body.
 
let us know how it goes
 
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