 can i put '73 1.7 complete wiring in a 74 2.0?, is it going to be any harder than trying to find the short(s?) in my e |
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| monkei |
  Jun 18 2006, 01:17 AM
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slave to rust....  Group: Members Posts: 137 Joined: 10-August 04 From: Pleasanton, CA Member No.: 2,504  |
so i have a wiring harness with crumbled connections and broken wires. last time i tried to start my 74 2.0 914 after gutting the interior i hooked up the battery only to discover magic smoke coming from near my aternator out of the fan shroud.
im wondering, rather than try and discover this short and then repair/replace countless crappy connections on a crappy harness would it be better to go through and remove the old one so i can prime paint more completely and then replace it with the complute used harness. the harness i have a line on is from a 73 1.7 which is also a d-jet but im wondering if the computers have different pinouts and such. |
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| JeffBowlsby |
Jun 18 2006, 07:48 AM
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914 Wiring Harnesses Group: Members Posts: 8,533 Joined: 7-January 03 From: San Ramon CA Member No.: 104 Region Association: None 
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The 2 FI harnesses are electically identical, but physically they are quite different. the 1.7L harness branches wont reach the right places on the 2.0L engine. Use the correct harness and fix it or replace it. I may have a used 73-74 2.0L harness available.
Smoke from the alternator should not be an FI problem. A new alternator harness is cheap and you probably have a short to groud in your existing harness where it passes through the engine tin. Got grommets? BTW...the FI system is not fused. |
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| monkei |
Jun 18 2006, 10:57 AM
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slave to rust.... Group: Members Posts: 137 Joined: 10-August 04 From: Pleasanton, CA Member No.: 2,504 |
let me know if you have a 73-74 harness and what itd be. its the interior connections that look the worst so far, nothing crumbling where connecter to the engine. ill have to check around this alternator harness to what the deal is threre. im prettty intimidated when it comes to these electrical gremlins.....
good to know the brain box isnt fused....great, now i wonder just how much ive fried. |
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monkei can i put '73 1.7 complete wiring in a 74 2.0? Jun 18 2006, 01:17 AM
ejm Sounds like your problem may be with the alternato... Jun 18 2006, 04:29 AM swl if this started after you gutted the interior it w... Jun 18 2006, 05:19 AM
mikez Fifth vote for Bowlsby.... Jun 18 2006, 11:00 AM |
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