1964-1965 327 Engine Harness Lectric Limited VIG6465 Pink vs. Black/Purple Coil Wire

[Tom D.]

LL part number VIG6465 (instruction sheet INS8346) shows a "Black/Pink: "R" Terminal attachment at the starter solenoid. This wire routes to and from the COIL (+), on its way to the ballast resistor . I believe this wire should be pink. (In fact, the instruction sheet says "pink" at the coil end.)

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

[Alan D.]

Re: 1964-1965 327 Engine Harness Lectric Limited VIG6465 Pink vs. Black/Purple Coil W

64 R to + coil is B/P
65 R to + coil is P
Note the 64AIM has the 65 wiring diagram

[Stewart L.]

Re: 1964-1965 327 Engine Harness Lectric Limited VIG6465 Pink vs. Black/Purple Coil W

I just went through that on my 396 I’m working on. From my research there was a first and second design engine wire harness, the black/pinkwire became pink in the later style harness. My research involved other 396’s but you description sounds similar. I purchased a NOS engine harness that had a pink wire where the black/pink one was plus there was some other wire color changes. Non of the wire diagrams indicate the changes. I did some continuity checks before I installed it and everything checked out. It starts and runs with no smoke or fried wires.

[Alan D.]

Re: 1964-1965 327 Engine Harness Lectric Limited VIG6465 Pink vs. Black/Purple Coil W

The change of the wiring diagram occurred on July 14, 1965, so in the middle of a month when 1309 64 cars were being built.
Then the 65 cars got produced starting in Aug however only 227 were built.

[Garry B.]

Re: 1964-1965 327 Engine Harness Lectric Limited VIG6465 Pink vs. Black/Purple Coil W

Tom, I had to deal with this on a '64 I had recently had. The '64 is in fact black with pink stripe. One leads through the firewall at the ballast resistor and connects to one of the terminals. A second black and pink leads from the ballast resistor to the coil and then from the coil down to the R terminal on the starter. The prior owner had installed a HEI coil bypassing the ballast resistor. The black and pink wire running from the coil to the starter was totally fried.