Over the last few days, we have been trimming wire and sniffing exhaust fumes. It's been a task of finding a connector to something we don't think is necessary to start the engine or that the computer needs to run the engine efficiently and then cutting those wirea, checking if the engine still starts and runs; and then eliminating those wires from the wire loom. David has done an awesome job of pulling out the wires from the loom, Jacob helped zip tie-ing the wires we made sure we didn't want to eliminate like the transmission, the fuel pump, and many others. Because we don't have a full exhaust system and the oxygen sensors hooked into the computer the engine is running very rich in fuel causing us to have the windows and doors open, luckily it's been in the low 50's so we aren't freezing, but it's still a bit nippy in the shop.
We had a few scares during the process, we have cut some wires that caused a no start and even when we tied them back together it was still a no start until we realized that the Ford operating system is much like the Microsoft operating system. Hence our solution was to remove the battery and restart - the computer caught up with our changes and the engine started !!! We could then find the wire that needed to be spliced back together again and continue our march to eliminating as much wire as we can.
A few before and after pictures as well as once last video of the engine running before we will rebuild it. We are still deciding on how much we do on the engine, our dilemma is it's running well now- maybe no need to do a full rebuild.
Wire loom before the cutting. Blue zip ties are good wires are here. Jacob identified these
After we cut out all the wires, we knew from starting the engine and looking at the wiring diagrams this would be our close to final engine wire loom. We will still need a chassis wire loom and we will use the one from the kit. The chassis wire loom will control all of the electrical from things not necessary to run the engine. For example the radio, headlights, power windows.....
We will clean this up, but this is our where we are at today.
This is what we are recycling - 50+ pounds of wire
After all that wire was eliminated, the engine still runs - our strategy is working whoo-hoo!
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