[Joshw97]

Hard to tell from your description, but it sounds like the "good" wire is in the loom--corrugated plastic tubing designed to protect wire harnesses from becoming entangled or chafed. Feel free to open the loom--it should have a split in it lengthwise.

If it's black tape that you are encountering, remove it to expose the wiring. You can always use electrical or cloth tape--the kind hockey players use--to re-wrap the harness.

Try to take a pic of what you are encountering, and post it...

Thank you for the reply! I couldn’t think of a good explanation of that part, but you’re spot on with it. The wires that are within the corrugated tubing are exactly what I’m talking about. Hopefully the weather will be clear this weekend, so I can get out there and get it done. Thank you! So the two green wires (with the blue and white or orange stripe?) I can’t remember which color the other one is, but I know one has a blue stripe. Anyway, I cut those way too short. And with it being a tight space, I just can’t splice them successfully, so I’ll have to just cut the corrugated tubing and work with that, then wrap it back up! If that fails, I may check the scrapyard for some replacements. Maybe it’s a whole harness that I can just plug n play, and splice the new resistor on to that. There’s always plenty of MK1’s at the local spot.

 

[Joshw97]

The one photo, I found with a google search, to display exactly what wires on talking about. And the other photo is the monstrosity that I created.