In typical fashion after looking at this project I had the inevitable impulse to tear it down to its working components, inspect them, and then reassemble everything better than it was when I first brought it home. This way I would know every part, every piece of this machine and its potential failure points as I am cruising down the road.
Upon beginning to diag the rough running condition I dove into the mess of a wire harness and found to my surprise, well, maybe not quite to my surprise, that the bastard that assembled this thing in the first place used blue 18ga wire for EVERY interconnect on this thing. Everything was connected with a blue wire. Positive +12vdc leads to ground wires, to signal wires, all were blue. Making this impossible, well in an overall sense, to troubleshoot or daig electrical issues. Sure, I could run a multimeter to leads and check resistance to frame ground or battery ground and then label everything, but that is a lot of work probing each blue wire to figure out its source and terminus. Yeah, scrap that. Looks like I am rewiring everything, since I’ll have it all apart anyways. Then I can color code all of my wires and create a schematic for future reference. Time to buy some interconnect wires, think I’ll go with 18ga again, it seems appropriate for this use. A quick log into Amazon will get it coming my way. Oh yeah, and need some terminal ends, uninsulated but connectors, Tesa tape (it pays to get the real stuff), 3:1 heat shrink, cable shrouding, and some heat-proof tubing for around the engine compartment. Below are links to the products I used for this, check them out.
https://amzn.to/3Jyq3e5 – 3:1 heat shrink
https://amzn.to/3VN0tt0 – cable shrouding for heat
https://amzn.to/3TR7gz7 – Tesa tape – a must for protecting fresh wiring 🙂
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