WIRES!!! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!!!

[RollaGT_87]

My engine bay's full of wires that don't do jack shit. Why is that??? I gotta Bluetop 4age, I think the wally who owned the car b4 me musta had all sorts of random shit in there. If the wires don't SEEM to function, is it safe to just rip 'em out? Wanna make my baby look bootiful on the inside

[Muzzie]

I've had this problem before with a 89 Bighorn, seriously must have been 50 wires all throughout the engine bay and a REALLY dodgy looking system of connectiong them all the battery. I just disconnected the battery, and then traced every wire back to where ever it went, if it didn't do anything I ripped it out.

My incentive to do this was when one of the wires got caught in the fan and ripped my spot light circuit apart, which I then repaired after ripping all the other wires out.

If you trace them back to their starting points it should be obvious if they are or are not doing anything. So easy to determine if its safe to rip them out.

[RollaGT_87]

Makes sense . Gutted about ure spots that shits whack! Lucky I don't have any... Wouldn't mind some though I'll make sure I rid the engine bay of these pesky electrical weeds before I hook them up

[Muzzie]

I actually got them off a Mazda from pickapart. For 15 bucks working I thought it wasn;t to bad, damn things kept filling up with water though and rusting out the insides. I aint got any spots on the Hiace, its got 4 main headlamps already and two fogs so technically it's not legal, but if beer up the wiring on the fogs I can put 150watt bulbs in there and do just as good as some spotties They have motorised covers too (so they take 10 seconds to come on anyways) and wont turn on unless you got both parking light circuits on so a WOF inspector won't be any the wiser Mwahahahaha.

I was pretty guttered about the bighorns ones as well, but thems the breaks. I learnt my lesson though - took my two hours to rewire them *sigh*