The New Project: Part Deux!

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And while I had everything half-way apart I pulled out the original, fried engine compartment harness and installed the new American Autowire harness. (FYI, you can buy the harnesses at Rockauto.com at a hulluva discount. American Autowire lists the harness for $185. Rockauto had it for $120, and it shipped directly from American Autowire here in NJ).

I pulled the driver's side inner fender and that cut out about 4 hours of knucklegouging and blood donations by giving me direct access to the bulkhead area under the booster, where the harness bolts in. You do not want to wrestle with all the power brake lines and booster trying to find the bulkhead by feel. Just no fun. (Something I found out when replacing the defective harness in the 72 T/A).

The hardest part was getting the starter back in while holding it up with one hand, attaching the wires to it with the other hand, tightening the wires with a 1/4&quot; drive ratchet with another hand and keeping it from falling on my head with my other, other hand. And then noticing I forgot the shim. And then the phone sitting on the trunk lid of the Charger rang.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]