I was driving during some heavy snowfall and slush built up near my transmission. it eventually froze and got dislodged while driving to work this morning and ripped some wiring out. i lost all the gears except reverse which only kinda works. it look like the wiring comes from the top of the transmission. i have included some pictures to help. i have been looking all morning and i cant for the life of me find where they come from. thanks for your help!!
I was driving during some heavy snowfall and slush built up near my transmission. it eventually froze and got dislodged while driving to work this morning and ripped some wiring out. i lost all the gears except reverse which only kinda works. it look like the wiring comes from the top of the transmission. i have included some pictures to help. i have been looking all morning and i cant for the life of me find where they come from. thanks for your help!!
Seems like it's just a blank plug used for something else (another transmission perhaps?), I wouldn't worry about either of those two, but then again, I haven't the Chilton's/FSM for that year vehicle.
Looks like all the wires are yellow/stripes from the picture and there appears to be six of them. The other end just has rubber plugs in it which generally means in electrical that the connector is used for something that isn't available on your vehicle's transmission (more gears/lower gears than given?) As for the other connector, if that end is blank too then I wouldn't worry too much about that side either.
Mopar's have a fail safe built in that when it's too cold out (how cold was it last night?) that the computer will put the transmission into Limp Mode where it won't shift into very high gears until the transmission has warmed up completely. Likewise, you might be low on fluid too or are looking at another issue.
This doesn't go to say that the harness doesn't go to anything, but wire colors will be needed.
If you go here and use tech as username and tech as password you can login, scroll to bottom, where you'll find Auto Repair Reference Center Beta then put in your year, make, model, and engine then search wiring diagrams under Transmission (there should be only one diagram available) and attempt to find corresponding wires. I haven't found any solid yellow with stripes on any of the wires, but I may have missed it.
Most likely snow just ripped it down, maybe took another plug out from some electrical/solenoid shift control somewhere else, and those just happen to be hanging down.
i agree with caffeine but too add, sometimes those plug connectors have jumpers built in so that it'll show feed back to the tcm showing that option is not installed. removing that plug will then make the tcm think that, that option should be there but its open now. if that makes any sense.
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