Background story. Bought an 89 loyale years ago with no motor. The ditsy plug was cut. Got a motor from unknown year (ditsy has square plug). Pulled the chassis side plug off a parts 90 loyale turbo. Upon splicing it in, the wire pattern in the plugs do not match up. Both plugs have red,white,green,black wires. Easy fix right?! Just match the wires up from the ditsy side to chassis side when splicing... So i thought. The wires coming from the chassis harness are red,white,black, and black with a stripe. Which i guessed would just be the green wire. But im getting no spark from coil. Im seeing if anyone knows which order the wires should be connected from the red,white,black, black/red; to the ditsy red,white,black,green. Just want to make sure its connected right before i try and start trouble shooting further. Dont want to beat a dead horse if anyone can help that would be great! This thing hasnt seen the road for over 8 years and its begging for a lift!

An 89 should have been SPFI. There may be diffences between a SPFI and a turbo distributor, aside from the wiring. But I'm not a turbo expert.

 

These things are electronic, and may not survive incorrect connection.

The 89 is a spfi car. The only thing I took from the turbo car is the chassis side ditsy plug. It was also the clear square one. And disregarded the wire colors on that side of the pigtail. To ensure there was no mix up from turbo model to n/a. My confusion is the actual chassis wires are not the same as the ditsy wires

Ah, ok. The harness wires often don't match the end device. The factory service manual may show them for both sides of the conector.

Ya. I was looking for my fsm but I haunt found it yet lol. May be somewhere in my gl10 from moving this last year... To many projects haha

I'd look, but I am not home right now

My memory is weak, but I think there are posts in this forum about distributor wires and the colors. 

See this link for partial discussion.  There are likely more posts on the subject.

 

http://www.ultimates...e/#entry1246915

 

hope this helps

Edited November 29, 20169 yr by Dee2

Yeah I saw that post. I did about an hour worth of digging but didn't see anything that helped. Just basically need to know the position of the wires on the chassis side on the plug. Seeming as though they may not match up. The two plugs don't anyways lol

I'm more wondering how they would match up being as my chassis side has no green wire. Its black with a tracer

Ok so I was all mistaken... Chassis has red,white,green,black. So does ditsy plug. I just need to know the correct orrientation of the colors going into the ditsy traced back to the chassis side of the plug. ( basically if there were no plug, what teminal would each wire go to on the ditsy... I can figure it out with that info. Make any sense?