<VV> RE: 1966 wire colors

[Ed Dowds]

Bob-
I have only seen references to this standardization.
At some point GM started publishing their wiring diagrams with a list of 
numbers preceeding the actual diagram. The earliest one I have right now is 
an '87 Celebrity manual. I looked at a '75 Vega/Monza and they show the 
numbers in the diagrams, at the connectors, but don't have the separate list 
of the numbers with color references.

If one reads the later lists they correspond to the '66 Corvair wires up to 
about #60. (The Celebrity diagram references up to wire #899!)

Some examples:
#2 Red Battery, Unfused Feed
#3 Pink Ign switch "on and Crank" controlled, unfused feed
#6 Purple Starter Solenoid Feed
#13 Purple Front parking lamps
#18 Yellow Stop and Directional lamp- rear left hand

If you had the list from a manual, like the mentioned '87 Celebrity, you 
could find a wire in the harness and refer to the list to find out what it 
was for. You could then cross reference that info with the actual wiring 
diagram to see where the wire is supposed to go.

As an example: Once after a business meeting my Celebrity would not start 
due to a malfuntioning neutral safety switch. Since I "knew" that the 
starter solenoid feed wire was a large purple wire I looked for that wire in 
the engine harness. I turned on the ign switch, bared the wire and used my 
jumper cable to jump it to the battery. The car started right up. My fellow 
employee who witnessed this was amazed! I looked like I had preformed a 
magic trick.

You can look thru some cheap GM manuals at flea markets and find one that 
has the list. I think I paid about $4 for some of my manuals. Since you are 
only interested in the wiring list you can select from the manuals that 
don't sell well.
I hope this info helps.
                                 Ed


>From: BobHelt at aol.com
>To: ed_dowds at hotmail.com
>Subject: 1966 wire colors
>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:59:41 EDT
>
>Hi Ed,
>You recently stated that GM standardized their wiring color codes in  1966.
>Could you please tell me where all of these color codes are documented. I'd
>like to get a list of these.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
>Bob Helt