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Sorting the wiring harness

The wiring harness was looking worse for wear so it needed fixing up before installing.

A few nasty burn marks and melted shield:


Broken boots:


... and exposed wires!


I found some silicon Temptape from Car Builder Solutions that looked like it would do the trick of sorting out the wiring loom without needed a complete remake.


After giving the harness a good wipe end to end, it was a matter of covering every nasty spot with Temptape.





All in all a good result!

I then needed to extend the wiring for the throttle position sensor - so snip snip...

 ...join, extend and wrap...

...attach the sensor plug connector...


and cover it in Temptape.


Job done.

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  1. MadRob626 July 2013 at 09:24

    Did you have any luck sourcing the part for the round plug that you had loitering on the new harness? I was checking out my spare harness (which is a bit shot) and realised that the part missing was still attached. It doesn't have the mounting cage but the part itself is there. It seems to be some kind of fake spark plug arrangement to discharge the ignition system.

    I'm wondering if the square plug that lives inside the car is something to do with the ignition amplifier which lives at the front of the engine bay by the drivers side headlight. I'll try and check some wiring diagrams and see what's going on.

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    1. MadRob626 July 2013 at 10:25

      I've been looking through the wiring diagrams here http://www.cannell.co.uk/_manuals/porsche/p_944_wsm_electrics_from_88.pdf and I'm still not entirely sure what the long thin plug is. It may have something to do with the knock control though.

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  2. RetroSteve16 September 2013 at 18:26

    Thanks Rob - I found the resistor that plugs into the round connector but I'm still stumped on the single row connector near the ECU and the spade connector on the end of the long thin wire that extends from the end of the harness!

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