[DeTomaso] Wiring harness R&R

[Will Kooiman]

My ¹72 had all of the wiring for the seat belt buzzer too.  It had the
sensors in the seat belt retractors and the buzzer under the dash, so I
assume it had everything from the factory.  I removed all of that wiring.

I don¹t recall extra wiring on the front end of the car.  The only other
wiring I removed was the thick battery wires, as I moved the battery to
the back.


On 11/9/14, 1:31 AM, "Mike Drew via DeTomaso" <detomaso at poca.com> wrote:

>   In a message dated 11/8/14 9:12:38 PM, detomaso at poca.com writes:
>
>     The tech (BJ Filarski) that found the problem after 2 days of
>     searching told me he routinely cut away about 10 feet of extra
>     wiring- stuff not connected anywhere that was folded up and taped
>     into the stock front wiring looms.
>
>   >>>Hmm, interesting.  Lori's car had miles of extra wiring in front of
>   the radiator, but it was all clearly added by some unknown previous
>   owner (and did nothing).  I've never seen another car that had 'extra
>   wires' up front.  So I suspect that rather than being a general issue,
>   that instead a few cars like yours and Lori's were hacked up by
>   unsympathetic former owners.
>   FWIW my '72 has a whole bunch of unused wires, but only because it has
>   a '74 wiring harness and there are numerous components in the later
>   cars (all the sensors inside the seats for the ignition interlock/seat
>   belt buzzer, as well as the starter interlock override in the front
>   trunk) that aren't present in my car....so mine falls into the same
>   category as well.
>   Mike
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