Bit of an update, not too exciting though...
Having previously installed the front end of the brand new wiring loom, the rear end was still sitting in the cabin.
All this lot has to go through the hole above where the gear linkage cables exit, they're then tie-wrapped to the front side of the fuel tank fire wall. It then comes along that wall and up towards where the fuel pump is, and finally it splits to go out of the rear bulkhead into the engine bay and back into the cabin
Before we can start threading, we have to drop the ruddy fuel tank again...
All threaded through
I never seem to get enough pics .... but the part of the loom that goes into the engine bay is fairly straight forward, it just hooks up to things like the coolant reservoir, fuel cutoff, ABS and contains the relay holders for the 4 relays (including the infamous big yellow). The section that feeds back into the cabin hooks up to the rollbar for the aerial and brake light, then sweeps across to the drivers side and again exits through the bulkhead into the engine bay again. (a bit fiddly, it's easier with the seatbelt removed). This hooks up to the other ABS, the inlet temp sensor and other various engine components.
After hooking up the loom to all the components that I currently had on the car, I thought I'd try and get the dash lit up.
I hooked up the battery and the alarm lights flashed. I disarmed it and turned the key
It works! That was a bit of a milestone and I'm sure I had a little grin