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Yeah... the goal here was not to spend weeks doing this. |
I ended up removing every pin from the connectors and marking them (R46
for Red 46, etc.), shown here in progress.
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The plan was to separate the red and the blue connector wires. Made a
little tougher since some wires essentially connect the two. |
Bundled. | |
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Also needed to extend the coil/injector wires. |
For validation - run along the outer edge of the inner fender
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More lengthening and bundling. |
Put it all back together after lengthening everything and it was still a
horrible rats nest.
Back apart. Problem - in part - was because
I just plugged all the red pins in and they ended up routed around each
other, and same for the blue.
New plan: Plug in red 1-10, 41-50,
11-20, 51-60, etc. Wrap the quadrants separately. It's still a
rat's nest but not nearly as bad.
Plug everything in, try to start
the car: dead battery. Tries to spin the starter, no luck.
Bought a replacement battery charger. | |
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Moving on to the next task: the AC box. I don't know what I'm trying
to validate here beyond that it clears the engine, which I already knew. |
Started wrapping the wires as the battery charged.
After a couple
of days (trickle charge), the engine spun over, would start and then die
pretty much immediately.
Did I miss a pin? There's no codes
reported (beyond "MIL indicator not found", which I knew). The sensors
all seem to be working per EFILive.
Maybe the battery still
needs more charge. | |
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Move on to the next task: the damaged parking light mounts. This is
the better of the two. |
And this is the worse. | |
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Reconstructed the missing corner. Still need to weld on a #8 nut to
finish this out, then re-sandblast and paint. |
Same on the worse one - filled the holes, reconstructed, new mounts.
Need to weld on the nuts, resandblast, and paint here too. Also may
need to replace the bulb socket.
One of these housings has a broken
bolt in one of the lens mounts; still need to handle that too. | |
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I am not quite sure how this has occurred, but the epoxy primer and
implement enable has flaked off here at the headlamp adjustor. The
adjustor is also trying to pull through. |
There is a difference between the "headlamp adjusting nuts" (skinny) and
"license plate nuts" (thick). Replaced the skinny with the thick. | |
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Apparently I have a leak at the oil pressure gauge. Tightened. |
Minor concern that the PCV hose has a crimp. Maybe it's too long,
or too short, or maybe it doesn't matter. | |
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After going through all sorts of possible causes (VATS? Low voltage?)
the answer became clear. If only I'd looked at this gauge that's still
in a box on the cowl; it was correct.
Added fuel and the car started
right up. No new codes so I guess I hooked everything up correctly. |
Paint for the AC box. Guess next up is to mount the box and the
ECU so I can put the fender on. | |