Engine Bay Wire Tuck

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By 92egdxhatch
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:09 am #199841 im removing heat/ac/defrost what do i do about the coolant lines for the heater core?
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By Ajax1989
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:23 am #199844
92egdxhatch wrote:im removing heat/ac/defrost what do i do about the coolant lines for the heater core?


get one of these
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and hook the coolant hoses together

we did this when my heater core went out on my ranger back in the day :thumb:
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By 92egdxhatch
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:35 am #199846 where can i get one?
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By Ajax1989
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:40 am #199849 auto zone, kargens, your local auto part store
or home depo, lowes.. it just a universal hose connector type thing :thumb:
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By 92egdxhatch
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:41 am #199975 okay i want to move my battery into the interior, id like to put it under the dash do you guys have any suggestions?
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wire tuck

By turbosedan717
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:06 am #206759 hey man the car looks amazing. and i've been following the tuck on my eg sedan all the way but i've hit a bit of a snag. i was wondering if there's any way to do a good tuck like this without removing the heater core? and if so where in the firewall should i run my wires?

By hooplin
- Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:34 pm #206805 hey teal another heater related question. My heater is gone can i remove the hose and plug them up. Or do i have to loop them?
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By hatchie
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:24 am #212419 hola quick questions por favor

- can you take out the heater core etc and run the wires through that hole
but still run a.c?

-you dont have windshield washers anymore do you?

-for a mild tuck can you just strip the harness to the headlights away from the drivers side and keep the plug ins sitting on the strut tower?

-when i tuck the passenger side headlight harness do i have to remove the fuse box and the battery, and anything i should be aware of as far as problems or key tips?

-oh and when you remove the cowel .... is there an easy way to pop the clips off..... i just dont wanna break my minty ones
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Re: wire tuck

By teal_dx
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:56 am #212422
turbosedan717 wrote:hey man the car looks amazing. and i've been following the tuck on my eg sedan all the way but i've hit a bit of a snag. i was wondering if there's any way to do a good tuck like this without removing the heater core? and if so where in the firewall should i run my wires?


I have not seen this done. If it is possible, it would be extremely difficult because everything will be so compact behind the dash.
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By teal_dx
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:57 am #212423
hooplin wrote:hey teal another heater related question. My heater is gone can i remove the hose and plug them up. Or do i have to loop them?


You can block them or loop them :thumb:
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By teal_dx
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:04 am #212424
hatchie wrote:hola quick questions por favor

- can you take out the heater core etc and run the wires through that hole
but still run a.c?

-you dont have windshield washers anymore do you?



I'm not sure how the AC runs, my car didn't have it.

I don't have a wiper motor in the car right now, but I extended the harness for when I put it back in. Technically I don't think my car is street legal w/o wipers, even though I have rain-x.

-for a mild tuck can you just strip the harness to the headlights away from the drivers side and keep the plug ins sitting on the strut tower?

Absolutely :thumb: A lot of people do a partial tuck this way.

when i tuck the passenger side headlight harness do i have to remove the fuse box and the battery, and anything i should be aware of as far as problems or key tips?

I did mine as a full tuck, so I had to. I am unsure about partial tucks. Some members have done partial tucks on here but I cant recall about the battery or fuse box.

-oh and when you remove the cowel .... is there an easy way to pop the clips off..... i just dont wanna break my minty ones

Those clips are a bitch... I found that if I grabbed them with pliers and rotated them 90°, then they pop out easily.
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By hatchie
- Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:13 pm #212499 ok sense you said you dont have wipers anymore......where u gunna put the resevior when you put it back in?? cuz now your batterys in the way
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PROBLEM!

By turbosedan717
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:38 am #214133 okay if anyone can help it'd be greatly appreciated. so i have my chassis harness tucked and everything squared away. or so i thought. i hook up my battery and only my driver side electronics are working? i am completely lost by this because everything on the driver side works fine and NOTHING on the passenger side works. please help asap!

By littleman
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:43 am #214145 teal, that tube with a red cap pointing 11 o'clock in the IM, ever tried rotating it so it points downwards so i can cut the hose going to booster shorter :?
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