Putting my rebuilt wire harness in and could use a pic of the starter solenoid. A pic showing the area should do fine, I can blow it up and find the detail I need.

specificially looking for the wire routing of the engine harness,

does it go next to the vacuum tank or under it and where does the plastic Xmas tree fasten to. The wheel well liner or the side of the fender ?

thanks

While i am waiting for my new PCM from Joanathan at https://www.dieseltechchatt.com/ I pulled the engine wiring harness out to repair some frayed wires and beef up the armor on it a bit.

Ford did a great job on the harness as it is nearly race car quality, I think they learned how horrible the Lucas wiring was on the Jaguars back in the 90’s and vowed to build world class wiring from that point on.

the weak points on the harness is at the connectors and all of my damage looks to have come from previous ham fisted mechanic who didn’t put the wire shielding back on correctly or removed it entirely as components were replaced. The tape that ford used has held up pretty well but was frayed from many power washings from leaks in the past.

anyhow, I removed all the tape and nylon split loom. Cleaned up the oily mess and checked every inch of every wire.
in total I found 4 bad wires and repaired them.

To equal or better the original harness armor I used an abrasion resistian high temp tape 51036 from Tesa
https://www.tesa.com/en/industry/automotive/applications/wire-harnessin and nylon high temp corrugated split loom.

Repairs were done with soldered splices and diesel fuel resistant heat shrink tube.

The trick part is taping the joints so there is not a weak spot in the armor or an entry point for fluids.
ford didn’t originally tape the entire length of the split loom but I did.

When I inspected each wire and connecters I missed the little tangs being broken on the passanger side vale cover injector harness. I had already replaced other connectors and was installing the harness today and didn’t want to wait to order the new pigtail and solder it in so I decided I would make a connected clamp.

took some measurments off the valve cover and layed it out on a piece of 1.5x1.5 aluminum angle.
riveted the clamp to the base
installed.

Looking for the solenoid that is mounted to the inside of the passenger fender.

I should sell them and call it the $50 mod. Lmao

Good tech... did that solve the alternator eating ?
maybe I missed it but did you check and clean all the grounds ? ( I recall 4 of them )


anyhow, I am trying to figure out where this harness Xmas tree plugs in. ( ya I am that OCD )

I’m gonna go with the fender liner, my battery tray hole already has the starter cable attached to it. Thanks