Well Guys,
Wes at CDD's glow plug OEM replacement harness for my 94 7.3IDI-NA didnt show up. NOT Wes' fault at all, but it is just that the USPS 1st class mail system is still notoriously known as SNAIL MAIL for a reason.
Since the harness is not here, it gave me a pause to think about how I am going to route the new GP wiring on the passenger and drivers side.
Now, those with GP problems, especially on the older IDI's can appreciate and relate to. The years of heat, vibration and the plastics and rubber themselves finally failing resulting in the breaking down and revealing of, exposed wiring, and of course the old, rotten bullet connectors.
These culprits are addressed and fixed with the CDD (thewespaul) updated GP harness. Praise the LORD.
Here are some of my thoughts on this process.
On the OEM harness, upon preparation of the new GP harness and bullet ends, it requires the removal of the bullet ends, the original wiring that is encased in the harness and all taped together ALONG WITH other sensor wiring that plug into the top front of the 7.3.
So, my point of taking the time to write this is so that, hopefully, someone else that comes along with the same situation can hear and maybe take advice from you all here on OilBurners, and, read my thought process, resulting from the pro's and con's of leaving all the wiring in the harness and just clipping off the old bullet ends, or to go the extra mile and cut open the OEM GP harness, carefully cut, tear or otherwise remove the dried up tape, etc. and remove the 8 wires and old bullet connectors ENTIRELY from the spiral wrap OEM harness and try to see if the 4 individual "Aftermarket CDD" GP wires can be retrofitted into the larger OEM spiral wrap and then everything has to be retaped and reinstalled like OEM from the factory or not.
I am still debating, as on one hand, just leaving it all intact and just clipping/cutting thew bullet end connects back to where each wire enters the spiral harness would have been SO much easier, it would have made for "not as clean" a re-install.
Or, maybe, should I have chosen, the harder path less traveled (which I did, btw) and carefully took the whole GP harness apart and removed the old tape, opened up the larger plastic spiral harness and individually removed each of the 4 wires and terminal bullet ends on both banks of GP's on either side of the engine.
I feel that, (if the aftermarket GP wires) will fit back into the spiral plastic wire loom, it will make for a much more streamlined re-installation, rather than the alternative method which is to leave the OEM wire loom harness intact and run along the injectors (as stock but with only the sensor wires still inside and functional) and ALSO have all the new GP harness wires zip tied and run along with the OEM wire loom next to it which would bulk up the re-install and make it look like more of a hack job than a professional one.
Since the NEW GP wiring didnt come today, I fear that I may still, have to run BOTH, the OEM loom, AND, the 4 zip tied GP wires along side one another, if, the new, GP individual wires with heat shielding, will not fit back into the OEM wire loom.
We'll see, when the care package arrives, hopefully tomorrow, based on tracking.
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