3/2/07

The other song I couldn’t remember yesterday was “Hold Your Head Up” by Argent. I know you have been losing sleep over that so I thought I'd better clear it up for you. Well, John and I did go to the shop last night after all. I stopped at Auto Zone for some relays and another roll of electrical tape. When I arrived at the shop, I got started with the wiring. I found a nice piece of heavy-gauge wire with a yellow sheath for the power lead into the relays and sized it up to the run I wanted to make. I cut off a section and doubled it back on itself to make the legs of a “Y” cable. I stripped some of the insulation and soldered the “Y” together. Back at the car I began to think about connections for the relays. The only spade terminals I had were too small for the wire. I found another piece of yellow wire that was a smaller gauge. This I cut into two legs of a “Y” cable. I called John to see where he was so he could stop at O’Reilly’s for a yellow butt splice and some more female spade terminals. He had already past O’Reilly’s. I won’t go into the fact that I went back to O’Reilly’s for his double stick tape the time he called me and I'd already past it, because I'm not that petty. Anyhoo, by the time he arrives at the shop, I had found some more spade terminals so I really don’t need to make a special trip just for one butt splice. We decide that solder will work fine. I cut off my original “Y” and solder on the new, smaller one. I terminate all three ends, one with a big ring for the starter post and the other two with shielded female spades. I consulted the diagram on the side of the relay and hooked these up. Next I make a small-gauge red “Y” from the small red coming out of the harness I made Sunday, look it up if you really care that much, and a pair of cutoff wires from the floor. I terminated the ends with spades and taped them for safety’s sake. I attached them to the relay. I made a black “Y” out of two pieces of wire and a ring terminal and terminated the loose ends with spades. I didn’t tape these because they go to ground. I hooked them into the relays. Next I terminated the black wire from the fan with a spade, taped it up and plugged it into a relay. I terminated the blue wire from the fan with a ring terminal but left it hanging. Now it was time for the feed to the fuel pump. We looked at several sections of wire but I wasn’t happy with the gauge of any of them. Finally we found a section of orange wire I liked so I terminated it with a spade, taped it up, and hooked it to the other relay. I routed the big yellow, the red, and the orange wires together and taped them into a harness. I should have gone ahead and taped the yellow and orange to the harness I made Sunday but I didn’t. That new harness has one little red interconnecting it with the MSD harness. I'll probably go back and harness them together in the future. We’ll see. For my final act of the evening, I taped the wires and relays together to “seal” them from the elements a bit but I didn’t mount them just yet. So, to make a short story long, I think I have finished with the wiring harness as far as under the hood goes. Well, except for the gauges, I still have to do them. Yep, George is coming right along. I may have this one running this year! Ok, I think that’s enough for the week. I'm going to shoost this off to Spiderman and call it a week. Toodles.