Attempting engine wire harness repair

[Con2er]

After much delay I am finally attempting this repair. The car was running pretty decent all things considering when I last drove it. A troublesome coolant issue held up putting the car back together, plus a general disinterest/busy work schedule kept me away for about two years. With that fixed the next issue keeping me from driving is the engine harness. You can see the carnage below. Hopefully this doesn't take me another two years... Wish I could buy one.


At this point the urge to toss the whole thing is strong.




I mean...



This caught me off guard, although it makes some sense. These wires start as what looks like regular 20awg then become shielded?


Blurry picture, but this is the other end of the shieded pair.



This is my previous repair. Heat shrink to insulate the wire into the connector and also cover the solder joint. I only have to do this for like 24 more wires, at both ends, so 48 joins.

 

[skunk]

Best of luck . It has been so long I forgot what years were effected . At one time there was a member selling rebuild harnesses.

 

[Con2er]

Best of luck . It has been so long I forgot what years were effected . At one time there was a member selling rebuild harnesses.

Thanks. I did wiring repair as part of my job once upon a time. It was alot easier with all the proper parts available. I could use fresh pins and connectors instead of soldering replacement wire in.

 

[shansen8609]

I literally just did mine the last couple months. I now have pretty much everything to be able to rewire my whole car. I taught myself how to re-pin some of the connectors etc. stuff gets ridiculously expensive when you have to do the whole harness of sensors and the pigtails. I decided to save a future headache and made my connectors a little longer than stock so that the wires weren’t stretched and stressed. And I use wire harness tape over the wires, then looms and more harness tape. It’s the cloth like stuff. Better heat shield etc.

 

[svttour]

Im right here. I still make e0 harness conversions. Unfortunately, the donor harnesses are becoming very difficult to locate. I've had a customer waiting for 3 months because, I haven't been able to locate an injector harness.

Con2er, your harness is shot! trying to repair that will be a task and a fire hazard, I don't recommend it.

The price of my harness conversion is 750 shipped if I need to source the harness or 600 if you send me a donor harness that must be from a 99 return fuel style whether automatic or manual. I can convert the auto harness to manual. pm me if you have any questions.