anyone trim their harness??
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anyone trim their harness?? im done with my lt1 swap in my 81 firebird. i have so many wires not being used and i want to clean it up a little. i dont need the cruise wipers pwr door locks pwr windows pwr mirrors ac heater airbags ect ect. i was thinking about doing it myself but im not really too confident. im an electrician but i never really got in to car electrical. any tips? advice? should i just send it off to someone?
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another question, whats that big silver box with the 2 connectors going in to it? its right on the drivers side under the dash on the left side? also what about the vats? i know i need to tune that out right?
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I've been, "working" on my 93 harness for a long time now. I've cut a ton of stuff out of it so far. This all came from the body harness and there's actually a lot more in there now. This is an old picture:
The best thing to do is know what each plug is and follow the wires to see where they go. Alldata helped me out some, but mostly confused me.
The best thing to do is know what each plug is and follow the wires to see where they go. Alldata helped me out some, but mostly confused me.
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Verdad Gallardo ^^What is that silver Box for?
Yea, be careful when trimming wires.when I was doing the trimming for my T56 Swap, I cut one of the wires that goes to the Backlight Circuit for the Gauges..lol I had to fix it..
Check to make sure you can find the other end of the Wire, then check it with the Key on to see if it's got power and also if it powers up with the lights too.
Yea, be careful when trimming wires.when I was doing the trimming for my T56 Swap, I cut one of the wires that goes to the Backlight Circuit for the Gauges..lol I had to fix it..
Check to make sure you can find the other end of the Wire, then check it with the Key on to see if it's got power and also if it powers up with the lights too.
Found this picture in my 93 thread:
Here's another helpful one:
Last edited by Beaflag VonRathburg; Nov 17, 2008 at 02:19 PM.
^ That's good to know. I'm going to huck that thing in the trash then. What do the correlating wires go into? Can they be trimmed out or are they super integrated into other things?
My ABS computer (horizontally mounted under the driver side of the dash) looked like this on my 1995:
While I was working on that I went back to trying to figure out this crap:
It's called the, "convenience center". The round metal one is the hazard flasher, brown box is the audio alarm module, and the square one is the horn relay. I started tracing some of the wires to see where they go. One of the small yellow wires in the audio alarm module (brown box) goes into the spoiler brake light that I had previously detached and subsequently reattached. The few other wires I traced were ones that are the ones that are a bunch of wires of the same color taped together like so:
Black ones.
I really need to know if I can get rid of all of that stuff. I don't have horns in my car, don't want an alarm, and would like to get rid of it. Does any of it have random connections like the power seat and the rear defroster or can I just start clipping? What about the brake light? I noticed it Ys into another yellow wire that heads back to the brake light. I think that's just for the alarm, but I'm not sure.
It's called the, "convenience center". The round metal one is the hazard flasher, brown box is the audio alarm module, and the square one is the horn relay. I started tracing some of the wires to see where they go. One of the small yellow wires in the audio alarm module (brown box) goes into the spoiler brake light that I had previously detached and subsequently reattached. The few other wires I traced were ones that are the ones that are a bunch of wires of the same color taped together like so:
Black ones.
I really need to know if I can get rid of all of that stuff. I don't have horns in my car, don't want an alarm, and would like to get rid of it. Does any of it have random connections like the power seat and the rear defroster or can I just start clipping? What about the brake light? I noticed it Ys into another yellow wire that heads back to the brake light. I think that's just for the alarm, but I'm not sure.
