Saturday, August 10, 2013

EEC Wiring Harness

This weekend was the first real work on the car in almost a month! We dropped my oldest daughter off at college on Wednesday, Band Camp is done, the other two are now in school and surprisingly, we had nothing on the calendar for today (other than a much needed haircut for me).

So I installed a few things on the engine (tensioners, upper intake, oil dipstick etc.) then started on the EEC wiring harness. I was originally going to use the 89 xr4ti harness I got with the third motor, but there turned out to be enough differences that I decided to use it as parts for the 84 or 85 harness I got off eBay years ago.

I think I replaced every connector. Wow 30 year old wiring sucks!

Here is all that I replaced:


 

Three things left to do before installing all the harnesses:

1. figure out how to position the EEC wires so I can wrap them (anyone with a picture of an 84 RS Turbo/GT Turbo/SVO harness out of the car?)

2. Figure out how to fix this:


 

3. And this: