Electrical: mystery wire

[3rdGenStude]

I had to peel off the tape and cut into my wiring harness to replace the wires to the positive terminal of the coil. All three coil wires were brittle, cracked/bare for about 10 inches. In the process I found an unstriped red wire with a molded black female spade connector. (NOTE: it's not the lead to the temp sender. It came down out of the taped wire bundle further toward the center of the car than the temp sender wire.)

I can't find any obvious spade lugs it ought to be plugged onto. Any ideas? Possible left over from the previous owners switch over from generator to alternator?

Paul

[41 Frank]

Might be a wire for OD switch only used on OD equipped cars. Not having my shop manual in front of me this is just a guess. Wire harnesses sometimes have unused wires in them as they are pretty much the same no matter what equipment came on the vehicle. I believe my 62 GT has the same wire.

[bezhawk]

Power to the overdrive relay (if it were to have that option).

[starliner62]

That was going to be my answer also.

[3rdGenStude]

OD switch sounds unanymous then. No wonder it wasn't plugged into anything on my 4 speed car.

Thanks for the replies

Paul