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how hard is it to remove the wiring harness from an xf? has anyone done this before?
Yes, I have, and you need a substance to abuse, like glue, acetone, smokes or alcohol. Cause if you don't, you'll abuse everyone else in a 50 km raduius!
It's okay if its a full strip of the interior, like when you put all the XF Ghia bits in. Knowing that you'll end up with something neat afterwards is an incentive. But if its just a stock GL, S or Fairmont without A/C, power doors, mirrors, electric windows, then it'll take two days solid. Plus plenty of drinks.
Don't envite friends over who drop wicked wise cracks. I don't think there is ever an excusse for domestic violence, but the wire swop is!
Seriously, the issue is you have to remove and replace everything , and consult the diagrams from the 226 Gregoires manual. A digital camera helps too.
You can't do the good old Aussie routine of just getting stuck in and doing it the way that makes sense. Do it wrong, and you get to the last wires an discover you cant get the last piece of the loom in. The dash clips and other Nippon Clipons break easily, and it'll rattle like a dawg if you rush it. Beware! The plenumb/crowl/firewall is very prone to rust. The whole section is sound deadend, and you have to remove the whole HVAC unit to get to the main loom. Things like A and C-pillar ground wires take ages to remove, and you start to look at block connectors to cutt main wiring looms when they don't feed through bulkheads.
It's okay if its a full strip of the interior, like when you put all the XF Ghia bits in. Knowing that you'll end up with something neat afterwards is an incentive. But if its just a stock GL, S or Fairmont without A/C, power doors, mirrors, electric windows, then it'll take two days solid. Plus plenty of drinks.
Don't envite friends over who drop wicked wise cracks. I don't think there is ever an excusse for domestic violence, but the wire swop is!
Seriously, the issue is you have to remove and replace everything , and consult the diagrams from the 226 Gregoires manual. A digital camera helps too.
You can't do the good old Aussie routine of just getting stuck in and doing it the way that makes sense. Do it wrong, and you get to the last wires an discover you cant get the last piece of the loom in. The dash clips and other Nippon Clipons break easily, and it'll rattle like a dawg if you rush it. Beware! The plenumb/crowl/firewall is very prone to rust. The whole section is sound deadend, and you have to remove the whole HVAC unit to get to the main loom. Things like A and C-pillar ground wires take ages to remove, and you start to look at block connectors to cutt main wiring looms when they don't feed through bulkheads.
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sounds like im gonna have fun then. wanna get the wiring harness out of the efi xf and put it in my carby xf which im putting an efi motor in.
The efi loom is very easy to remove. in the engine bay it basickly is an add on loom, its only wired into the cars main loom in a few spots. i have removed a loom berfore and was amazed how easy it all come apart, the biggest bugger was that the plug from the ecu was to big to fit through the fire wall, so you have to pull the loom out from inside the car, u need a mate feeding the engine bay part of the loom through
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