Friday, September 23, 2011

Part 5

A wiring harness isn't easy to deal with. A thousand plugs that came from a thousand places, all of which are unknown now. We didn't intend to keep the original harness, so this is no big deal, but we did want to re-use some of the wire and connectors, so we did not want to trash it taking it out.

As seen in previous pics, the harness was pretty heavily integrated between the engine compartment and the dash area (as most are).  There was no main connector to separate the two, so everything had to be carefully strung through the small opening in the firewall, from the engine compartment into the cabin.

Finally, after a couple hours of painstaking pulling and pushing, shoving and swearing, all of the wires are out.   We're at the point of no return now. We MUST learn, and learn to love, the less-than-stellar schematics in our factory service manual and Haynes manual. We will have to build our electrical system from the ground up.

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