Parts, plugs and patience!

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Lots of parts and pieces needed have come in, making if possible to finalzie many of the jobs.

 Rag Joint for Ididit Steering column:

90* fitting for fuel pump:

New 3/8" fuel hose:

Chrome capped bumper bolts:

....and with those, it was time to pre-asssemble the rear bumper bar:

Odd marks around the square cut holes....hopefully not a place for rust to start!

Newly painted brackets - 

Fuel lines get a corrugated cover for extra protection -

Notice the 90* fitting making the fuel line much more relaxed,
                                                           with no pinch-points that could sever

Replacing the V-belt pulley for serpentine on Sanden AC pump .

Here I made a wrench to hold the pulley still while I loosened the centre bolt - 

With the Serpentine pulley on, I tried the pump in the space again...

But the ass-end is still up against the engine block....

 With the AC pump back on the bench - until more research proved it to be the wrong model for the kit.....I got back to wiring and got 'er nearly done:

                          Lots of solder used on the fused link 12V+ that powers the gauges -

Remote GPS mount for speedo - 

the lengths I go to make everything right, watertight and gutten-tight!

Wiring the Camaro and The Art of Zen

 If you think you're going to wire up a car - perhaps with a "so-called" Painless" wiring harness, or maybe you're going to splice in a new AC unit, new gauges, or even a stereo, you'd best get in the right frame of mind!

Some of the mess I started with - the original harness had been out, put back in, spliced for stereo's and who knows what else.....Agh!

So, I got my "Zen" on and began with a plan. The orignal gauge harness is on top, while one of 4 (yes FOUR!), new ones is on the bottom. Instructions are a must.

The original speedo-cable with grommet  wasstill attached. It has long since fit the hole, since the last electrician decided to route most of everything else through the same hole...jamming other plastic convoluted tubes thrugh the same hole -

The gauges had 2 harnesses each, one for power and lights, the other for speed and RPM signals.

Connections for water temp, oil pressure and to the tach for RPM, where next. The oil pressure  gauge was mechanical, but this gauge system is all electrical, so a bung was swapped in, turning oil pressure into into an electrical signal,

Slowly, each wire was identified, routed, labelled and connected. 

Everything was soldered and heat-shrink wrapped.

The original thermostat housing took off to the left, towards the upper rad-hose connection, but with the temp sensor installed, the hose would not fit on the housing. 

The answer was a straight-aread thermostat housing swap....