[urq] Pulling Wiring Harness out of a 200 3B?

[The Corbs]

Thanks Dennis!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dgraber460 at aol.com 
  To: c.corbishley at comcast.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:39 PM
  Subject: Re: [urq] Pulling Wiring Harness out of a 200 3B?


  Since I'm having someone else do my harness, I'm not the expert here, but I do remember needing the entire red portion. If it goes rearward under the carpet and back under the A pillar, you don't need that. The red portion came out as a single unit. In addition I also harvested the portion that controlled the fan, which was green wrapped and had a large 70 amp relay in it. It went up the driver side frame rail and connected to the blue resistor panel by the radiator.
  My guy also recommended that I also get the small portion that went from the diff lock switch to the drive train. He said it makes a good replacement for the cooked and brittle diff lock indicator wiring on the URQs.
  I knew I would not need all of this stuff, but I wanted to give my harness maker everything he needed.
  HTH

  Dennis Graber
  Quality Linings & Painting
  Denver, CO


  -----Original Message-----
  From: The Corbs <c.corbishley at comcast.net>
  To: DGraber460 at aol.com; martin at quattro.ca
  Cc: urq at audifans.com
  Sent: Mon, 26 May 2008 3:11 pm
  Subject: Re: [urq] Pulling Wiring Harness out of a 200 3B?


  Thanks Dennis.  Thanks for confirming that I didn't do all that for nothing!!

  Man, that 200 dash is built like a brick @#%&house!!

  I'm now at the point where I have disconnected all the wiring leading to the fuse box and pushed it into the car.

  What I'm finding is that the "red" wrapped lead from the ECU branches into all sorts of secondary connections.

  Do I need to trace all of these to source and pull them as well?

  That said, is it best to keep the 3B harness all intact, pull and discard the UrQ harness, and substitute with the full 3B, ie no splicing?

  I hate the thought of having to dismantle the UrQ's dash to get the harness in!

  Thaqnks

  John Corbs


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: DGraber460 at aol.com 
    To: c.corbishley at comcast.net ; martin at quattro.ca 
    Cc: urq at audifans.com 
    Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 4:42 PM
    Subject: Re: [urq] Pulling Wiring Harness out of a 200 3B?


    I just did this last weekend. No small task indeed!!
    One thing that would be of tremendous help would be to have someone else to help. If you can have an assistant push while you pull, you will save yourself a ton of time. It does all have to come into the interior side of the firewall. Wear gloves if you can. The harness wrap is sticky gooey and hard to clean off your hands. 
    The heater box does have to be up out of the way to get the portion free across the transmission tunnel.
    I had originally planned to use an AAN motor and pulled that harness which seemed easier for some reason. That motor didn't work out so had to go back and get the 3B harness. Trust me, you don't want to do this twice.
    Good luck!

    Dennis
    Denver





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