naw, not surprised at all. ( grateful for any little bit )

Trying to remember what I traced out today.. the dimmer had two wires, one went to the fuse box, the other went to the dash connector, and to the little bulb in the prnd1. the 'hot' side of the fuse box went out across the wire harness, and I suspect it goes to the firewall connector ( pass side ) with the temp sensor and the starter wires.

Speaking of the starter wires... seems I recall that a chevy starter has one wire to the start solenoid, and two wires on the other lug of the starter. The two other wires were for bypassing the coil resistor during start?

Of the starter wires.. the purple seems to be for the start solenoid, I have also a yellow, and a dark colored wire with hi-temp insulation, and the two sensor wires. Don' suppose you know ( exactly ) what they all do?

Thanks again.