VSS wiring path

[Lance58]

Can anyone tell me for a 1996 Ranger 2.3 Manual 4x2, what path the wiring for the VSS takes, does it go direct to the PCM/GEM/Speedo via the grey/black wires or does the signal get processed another way.
Thanks

 

[55trucker]

This might aid you?

 

[Lance58]

Thanks but that must be for a later model, 96 has the vss on the transmission.

 

[55trucker]

Yeah, that's the schematic for my 98,

did some digging, this is manual trans '97.........

 

[Lance58]

Thank you, I have seen this one before and wanted to confirm if I had the correct one, the problem I have is the grey/black wire after the first connector from the VSS exits as light blue/yellow and that splices into another light blue/yellow, one of them goes to pin 64 on the PCM. Pin 58 on the PCM grey/black goes to the large connector on the left side of the motor. Any idea if this wiring has been monkeyed with?

 

[RonD]

Not seeing the grey/black wire or the pink/orange wire in the picture, I don't think any other color wires were used on the VSS circuit.
The pink/orange wire should shows as a ground with ohm meter

Here is the 1996 Cruise wiring, it shows VSS wiring

 

[Lance58]

Hi, no cruise on this truck, the grey/blk is the light wire at the bottom front of the connector in the photo it connects to the light blue/yellow opposite in the female end, I have checked the pink/orange ground and it is good.

 

[RonD]

Doesn't have to have cruise, wiring would be the same, just 2 extra wires for cruise speed tie in

I have a blue/yellow connecting to grey/red for the transmission neutral sensor on a 1996, so I think that's a grey/red wire and not the speed signal wire
Have a closer look at it

 

[Lance58]

Hi RonD, it is definitely the grey/blk coming from the VSS and transitions to light blue/yellow at the connector.

 

[RonD]

Unplug connector and see if it has 1.5k OHMs to ground

 

[Lance58]

VSS is new and I spun it on the bench, works fine.
Which side are you wanting me to test?

 

[RonD]

test both wires see of one is connected to VSS

 

[Lance58]

yes the gry/blk and the pk/o are connected to the vss

 

[RonD]

???

Unplug the connector in the picture, and test the two wires to see if either of them is connected to the VSS, it would show 1.5k ohms to ground

 

[55trucker]

Fishing thru some other obscure schematics I dug into & the only reference to that LB/Y wire is at the CPP (Clutch pedal position) switch.