Rich Stern
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Some of you may recall I damaged the engine control wiring harness and found a replacement cable via Fast Parts Network (thank you, Torrie!)
The replacement cable showed up a couple of weeks ago, and last weekend I started removing the old cable. The cable is a nightmare. Looks like two octupusses mating. It runs from below the pulleys on the front of the engine, over the top of the right cyllinder bank, around the back of the motor snugged between the firewall and the back of the manifold (zero room for hands!), and branches across the left cylinder bank and all the way back to the rear of the tranny under the vehicle.
I managed to get most of the old cable unhooked. I'm stuck at two connectors: Under the front of the intake manifold. There is no room to remove the connectors without taking the manifold off. Who designed this thing?!?
Anyway, would appreciate any advice on this: I am trying to decide if I want to take the manifold off, or if I should cut and splice the four leads to the connectors I cannot remove.
Below is a picture of the two connectors (at center, orange and light gray). The picture is from the perspective of looking into the engine bay from the driver's side headlight.
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The replacement cable showed up a couple of weeks ago, and last weekend I started removing the old cable. The cable is a nightmare. Looks like two octupusses mating. It runs from below the pulleys on the front of the engine, over the top of the right cyllinder bank, around the back of the motor snugged between the firewall and the back of the manifold (zero room for hands!), and branches across the left cylinder bank and all the way back to the rear of the tranny under the vehicle.
I managed to get most of the old cable unhooked. I'm stuck at two connectors: Under the front of the intake manifold. There is no room to remove the connectors without taking the manifold off. Who designed this thing?!?
Anyway, would appreciate any advice on this: I am trying to decide if I want to take the manifold off, or if I should cut and splice the four leads to the connectors I cannot remove.
Below is a picture of the two connectors (at center, orange and light gray). The picture is from the perspective of looking into the engine bay from the driver's side headlight.
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