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I kinda answered my own question from my other post and got my "hack job" harness together. It's not quite "100", but good enough to install. And in doing so, more questions. (I hate trying to put together something that someone else tore down. Especially when they don't organize/document). Anyway, I need some instruction or pics of where the lighting harness should run. There are loom mounts under the top of the radiator support, so that's ok, but I ran it through one hole on the drivers side and a different one on passenger side and neither feel.quite right. Also, I went to plug in the washer pump and both connectors are female. Pretty sure this part of the harness is all original, so wrong pump? The car came with this reservoir AND one without a pump. There was no mechanical pump on front of wiper motor, though it was open, like it was missing one or a cover. Parts stores show electric. Any help on either?
The washer pump connector on the headlight harness should be a red and blue connection. Both are Male and the stock pump should be female. You can really run the harness anyway you want but from the factory it rode along the inside fender well, and across the radiator. It was all accessible from under the hood.
The plug you have pictured is not the stock pump connector. Since it looks like you are doing a nice rebuild you should condsoder hiding the harness inside the fenders. Take a look at my build thread on the LSX forum to get an idea what's involved. It really cleans things up and gets rid of some of the OEM clutter.
Thanks for the help/response. That is super weird about washer. That part of the harness is the ONLY thing the PO DIDN'T appear to have messed with, so, whatever. Just another mystery on this car. I went to the salvage yard today and looked at routing on an 85 so I think I have that handled for now. Sadly, it used a wiper-mounted mechanical pump, so no help there. I have thought about running harness hidden in fenders and may do that yet. It will be some time before they are permanently installed anyway and I have to construct an entire EFI Harness when I get to that point as well as professionally install wiring for amps, etc. I'll likely build a whole new engine harness too. I've already modded the starter wiring and am installing a Ford-type solenoid on the fenderwell as well as putting all of the fusible link wiring there, near the battery (something I've done on my last several Chevy projects and one of my only concessions to Ford engineering, LOL.) Before it's all said and done I'll probably put in a distribution box with bolt-in fuses in place of the fusible links. For now, while it is still carbed I'm just trying to get it functional and not hacked up and looking reasonably decent. I guess I'm going to have to invest in a shop manual in hopes of it having better, more specific schematics. Apparently the PO was a Troglodyte or technophobe of some sort and completely removed everything related to the computer (down to the exhaust manifold with O2 bung) and ALL sensors. And then couldn't figure out how to make fan and/or A/C work and hacked the harness trying. Still, my Haynes and internet drawings DO NOT match the parts I'm certain were factory, including an extra wire on both sides of fan relay coil. When I install my EFI and build a new harness I'm just going to completely rework the fan control to my vision anyway. Until then i may just go aftermarket temp switch and call it good. If you get a chance to post pics of your engine compartment with your own hidden harness, that would be awesome. I may take some ideas from that. Thanks again.
If you get a chance to post pics of your engine compartment with your own hidden harness, that would be awesome. I may take some ideas from that. Thanks again.
07-03-2020, 02:34 AM
