Wiring days 2-4. 

I have continued to do my best to install the Painless (they should change the name to nearly, or almost Painless) wiring kit.  I have run into a few snags here and there, mainly stemming from the fact that the harness was not specifically made for the vehicle and did not come ready with a few wires that were needed.  I have made some adaptations of the harness on the fly, just hoping that they work. 

Here are a few shots of whats been going on...

We start with the large mess of wire that would be running into the engine bay, the forward lighting, ignition, alternator, choke and horn wires mainly.  I sectioned them off and tied some of them together to clean up the appearance a bit.

This is the distribution block for the main power to the starter, fuse block and the return wire from the alternator.  There will be a 4 ga wire coming in from the trunk and it will be split into separate wiring (8 ga for the stater and 12 ga for the others).

The battery box installed in the trunk, mocked up with some scrap wire just to show what the final product will look like, well minus the goofy label on the front of the box.

Some of the wiring getting loomed up, you can see the headlight and horn cluster to the right, with the offshoot for the ignition coil.  I am still trying to figure a good, economical and aesthetically pleasing way of the securing the loom on the fender.  Any ideas would be appreciated!

Again, the looming.  This is the left side containing the other lighting wires, and the offshoot for the choke wire.

A shot of the final install of the ignition coil, which will ultimately need to be replaced due to the negative post.  I was tightening the nut, and trying to be as careful as I could, when the black plastic housing portion cracked around the negative post. 

Another shot of the distribution block mounted on the inside bottom of the battery box.

The wired and taped lighting switch.  Several additions need to be made to the wiring, accounting for instrument panel lighting. 

I went ahead and wired the headlight relays.  Two SPST relays, one for the low beam and one for the high beam.  the final taping and mounting will be updated in my next post, when I will be cleaning up all the under dash wiring.

 The dimmer switch, which took some figuring when adding the relays haha.

And finally the wired and taped up Fan and Wiper switches.  The wiper switch went pretty close to plan, except for the fact that I have no washer fluid pump in the vehicle.  If I choose to add one later, I shouldn't have any problem at all wiring it in.

Finally had a chance to remove all the old purple tint.  Looks a lot nicer, even with all the adhesive that left behind.  I will be investing some time with a large can of acetone and a few rags on this one.

Check back soon, as the wiring continues.  The lighting section is next on the list.  That will include wiring the reverse lights (which are not accounted for the in the wiring harness).

Thanks for taking look!

Brad

Day #1 of Wiring....

I was looking for a good place to mount the fuse panel, and I was failing.  Then I thought, since I am moving the battery to the trunk of the car, I can mount it to the inside of the battery box.  I drilled the holes, kind of, ha ha.  Due to the odd angle of the drill and the inability of the bit to start a hole, two of them were off and had to be re- drilled.  No worries, some rtv will fix it haha.  I will get a better picture of the engine side once it dries.

Here is what the mounting looks like from the inside of the car, I am planning to build panels to hide it all when I start to refurbish the interior.  The fuse block fit nicely on the inside of the battery box.  And the panel doesn't need to be grounded, so I am thinking that it can be mounted to any location on the firewall without regard to where a ground wire would have to be run or mounted.

Part of the engine section of the wiring.  This is minus the full engine section and lighting.

Started separating the sections and getting a rough routing of the wiring.

I figured it would be easier to tie the new wiring to the old and pull it through the roof.  Here it is ready to go.

The tail section, including a reverse light wire that I had to supply.  I did this before deciding to loom the section, so, I started over and used loom.  It was pretty simple.

Check back soon to see the next day of wiring.

Brad

Here's an update, I have only had a couple hours over the last few days to do any work on the 122, but I have gotten a couple of things finished!!

First off, I finally dipped, cleaned and re-built the carb.  With new gaskets and a cleaned up manifold, I figured I would go ahead and put it all back together.  I was pleased with my first ever carb re-build.  The true judge will be when it is back in the car and functions, ha ha.  I also finally got to fit the painted air cleaner cover!

I also finally got to put the heater back together.  All new gaskets, thanks to the folks at Swedish Treasures (www.swedishtreasures.com).  By the way, those folks had a ridiculously fast ship time, I received them 4 days after ordering.  Everything went back together pretty easily.  I threw a little RTV between the two halves of the box, due to a slight uneven fit (I corrected the fit as much as possible beforehand).  As soon as I can afford the updated 12V blower, It will be compete!!

I am hoping to start the re-wire next week.  I am going to post quite a few detailed pics on that one.  Please don't expect to see it completed too quickly. 

Brad