After I got the motor out the other day I carefully pulled the wiring harness off and labeled everything. For the most part the harness was in pretty good shape but I didn't wanna just leave it alone. Wiring is something I take a fair amount of pride in so I wasn't about to just trust someone elses work, and that turned out to be a good thing. One section at a time I stripped off the casing and inspected all the wiring underneath. A fair amount of the casing was damaged and needed replacement, also there were a number of places where the wires had been spliced together that needed attention. Seems the original builder was a firm believer in the twist and tape method of splicing. Thats just not gonna fly for me, so the solder and heat shrink came out. The harness is all done now, and its by far the simplest harness I've done yet. I'm really happy about that because it should make the buggy really clean and simple without a bunch of wiring hanging everywhere. If any of you saw either waynes buggy or Robbies Toyota powered sami in moab you'll understand why I like simple wiring.

Here it is.


Yesterday I also took the motor/tranny outside and pressure washed all the grease and grime off of it. You can actually see the intake now. I also separated the tranny from the motor and mounted the motor on a stand to make the rest of the engine work easy. I dont have a whole lot of work planned for the engine, but I do plan on going through and checking over most of the easy stuff, pulling the valve covers and pan, and just generally cleaning everything up so its ready for its new home.

Dallas