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belize1334

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I need to rebuild the harness for the passenger side of the engine (o2 sensor, temp sensors, etc) and I can't seem to source the striped wires necessary to keep the original color-code. Jegs had a few color options but not the ones I'm looking for. Does anybody know of a source for that stuff?
 

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Waytek has striped wire, but custom ordered and expensive I think. How much do you need? colors and how long? I have a harness from a 1g that I have been canabalizing for years for matching wire colors.
 

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The wiring is nice and soft back where it passes under the TB but up by the water pipe it's brittle and broken, on top of the carnage that I reaped. Also, I'm missing the plug for the AC temp sensor (top temp sensor on water-neck).

The colors are variations on Green. G w/ B, G w/ Y, etc. How's that section on your spare harness? Intact? Nice and soft? If it's good to go I'd buy it off of you and then splice it in...
 

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See if you can find a good condition wiring harness from a DSM or Galant in a junk yard. Get the whole thing, then de-pin wires from the ecu connector and pull the wires you need. You probably wont need to find a turbo model, just one with a 4g63 engine. Don't buy a JDM harness, some of their connectors aren't the same, and they use a different o2 sensor.

That's basically what I did and it worked out great. You'll get really good at de-pinning connectors too!
 
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Unfortunately the junk-yard here leaves something to be desired as far as Mitsus go. That's what happens in a state thats nearly the size of california with less than a million residents. The last time I asked the guy at the desk he said that he just crushes DSMs on site because in this climate nobody is interested in rear-wheel-drive sports cars. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif
 

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I just fixed my 92 for all those wires this summer. I will look at my harness and see what I have and what colors I used for repair. It is not the same harness, just a body harness from a 1g.

RWD sports cars? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
 

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Did you at least enlighten him that these cars are FWD or AWD, and therefore very desirable in that climate? Make HIM bang his head against the wall too! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/idea.gif
 

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Never try to enlighten the man who works at the junkyard. That's his turf and he doesn't take kindly to wise-asses.

I think I'll just get some spools of solid-color wire and match them as closely as I can... it's not perfect but I'm tired of this thing not running...
 
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FYI, the plug on the top of the thermostat housing is the same as the A/C pressure plug on DSMs.
 

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^^ Where is that on the harness? My A/C is gone so I don't really care about that sensor but as a matter of principle I'd like to avoid deleting harness plugs.
 

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It's way in the front left, by the coolant overflow tank. Right next to the sensor for power steering.
 

iceman69510

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Quoting jepherz:
FYI, the plug on the top of the thermostat housing is the same as the A/C pressure plug on DSMs.



Exactly the same, or "will work"? I had to repair that on 115 but I don't recall it being identical.
 

belize1334

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What about the little metal pins that go into these plugs? Can they be sourced or do I have to salvage them from the old brittle wires?
 
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