Well some more good progress tonight – I slightly surprised myself actually. It’s still really hot and I had almost talked myself out of the new wiring harness work and into focusing on putting the carbs and manifold back now I got some of the exhaust mount hardware and down pipe gaskets etc. However, that was slightly avoiding the more critical need/attention to the wiring harness so I got started and managed to get a fair bit done.
I started with the rear harness and started laying that in working from the drivers side rear lights around and down. Ran everything up to the engine bay and have just hung the wire for now without clipping everything in. Seems to have gone OK but I still have some grommet work to do at the main cross member – no way the ones I got were going to go down the wire or even fit in the cross member holes.
Then decided that even though I was on my own, I’d try and get the main harness just laid down on the inside of the car and the engine bay wiring pushed through. Started by getting the firewall grommet on and that actually went pretty well. Did that inside in the air conditioning! Then I returned to feed this all through the firewall and with a bit of walking back and forwards to push/feed or pull and squish I managed to get it all through to the engine bay.
So, feeling enthused by this progress I started hooking up and reconnecting the wires using my wiring diagram. Got it printed on 11×17 paper and laminated for about $2.50 at work and it’s proving very useful – much easier at that size and quite readable (also laminating it made it oil proof– tested that the other day – you know me and oil).
I have been able to connect up most of the wires but I need some more sleeve connectors and maybe some of the bullet connectors also. May have to do a couple of improvisations just to keep things moving and get testing. I really just want enough wiring to be able to fire the engine once I put that back and as I now have the missing seal for the front carb float cover there’s nothing holding me back on that now.
So, that’s enough for today/tonight. Will save the main dash harness for another day and may seek help on that next Monday. I need to get the dash right off I think and although I was told how to disconnect the trip meter last night that requires some more looking/checking.
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