Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:09:22 GMT From: krhodesnopsamR.com (Kevin Rhodes) Subject: Re: C900 "BAD" wires
The harnesses are available from Saab. Unfortunately, the best price I could find two years ago was $660 for the main engine harness, and about the same for the fuel injection harness. The main harness is a horror to replace - it is just a big pile of wires with terminals - no connector blocks attached at all. You have to remove the old blocks and reuse them, and plug the terminals into the fuse panel wire by wire. The thought of it still makes me shudder. The fuel injection harness is dead easy to replace - plug and play. Kevin Rhodes Westbrook, Maine 85 C900T In article <20030602091904.28450.00000426nopsam06.aol.com>, suprhtrnopsamcomno-spam (Paul Heim) wrote: >Okay, I know this issue has been beaten to death over the years, but I'm >weighing my options and want a little feedback one last time. In summary, I >have a 1986 Turbo with the dreaded wire insulation disease. I see my options >as: > >1. Continue wrapping all bad areas with electrical tape. (bad choice, but >least time consuming) > >2. Remove sections of the harness, break up as much bad insulation as I can >find, and carefully dip the mess in Eastwood's liquid insulation, keeping the >individual wires separated until it cures. This seems to be the best option as >a balance between a sound repair and the amount of time needed. Not the best, >but better than tape. Forget about the color codes, it's flying blind from >here on... > >3. Replace each wire in the whole harness with new material, one at a time. >Slow, difficult, won't have the right color wires to keep color coding >straight. > >4. Find a replacement harness. Can you even get these NOS? I haven't >checked, but I serious doubt it, and am skeptical that I would get the exact >correct harnesses in any event, given the many running changes I see in my >Bentley manual. > >5. Buy a used, identical set of harnesses. (and wait for them to rot!) Do >recyclers even mess with harnesses? My impression has always been that they >are left behind and go to the crusher with the body when all the good stuff has >been removed. > >6. Stay close to home and keep a fire extinguisher in the car.... > >So I'm leaning hard toward option 2. Has anyone else come up with any other >ways to address this problem? > >Thanks > >Paul Heim >Decatur, AL >86 900T, 225,000 Mi.
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