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gofer
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South Gilbert,
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12AUG2018 - Removing Unused Wiring from Body Harness
I decided that I needed to take my own advice and go all in on cleaning up all the wiring in my 2g that was tucked under the dash and not being used. This included all the radio, speakers, factory disc changer, factory amp, factory alarm, factory HVAC, factory keyless entry, cruise control... you name it, if it wasn't being used I removed it. I also routed my gauge wiring using the factory routing to clean things up. I'm only posting this as a single entry but I'd guess I spent over 60hrs doing this very tedious work and the biggest tool was the electrical FSM so I wasn't removing any wires that I still needed. At one time I questioned my decision to do this when my wife walked by and smiled, asking if my car was ever going to run again.
This was the first photo I took after I pulled the dash, cut all the wire loom back to the steering column, and pulled the un-used wiring from the harness. I drew two red "x's" through the handful of wires that I was slowing chasing through the dash to de-pin from their connectors, where they came out. As you can tell it was a lot of wiring.
Progress! It's difficult to tell from this photo comparing it to the previous but hopefully you get an idea of all the wiring that was removed and I still had a lot of work ahead. Tossed everything into the biggest box I had and it was overflowing, ended up getting 7lbs 1.3oz so far!