Electrical:
A few of months back I elected to finally clean out the rats nest that was the under-dash wiring and relocate the firewall bulkhead connector to be a little more accessible.
Nothing too interesting or unique, but the process helped me to become painfully familiar with the different circuits in the car.
With the door jamb dome-light switches having been robbed from the car long ago and an awful lot of questionable splicing and dangling loose wires, I sat down with a wiring diagram and DVOM to determine what I could make do without.
In the end, the entire interior lighting circuit (save for the dome light and it’s manual dash switch) were gutted from the harness, the ammeter was bypassed in favor of a voltage gauge, and the iffy splices, if they were providing power to an item such as the radio, were moved directly to the fuse block.
Regarding the bulkhead connector, the original which was too trashed to function properly, so it was replaced with a more weatherproof one, relocated to where the AC hoses once were.
In retrospect, rather than clean up the existing harness, I should have rebuilt it with all new wires. Oh well, another task for another day.
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