| Wish I knew more about wires... Prompted by the earlier discussion about my fuel pump this week, I tore into the fuse box today. This is what I found: 
Electrical tape like that isn't typically OEM, right??
Check out this brown wire that's running from the fuse box on the left around the shock tower and across to the right:
 It disappears into a hole in the fender where some other wires go, too. Its starting point in the fuse box is spliced into the OEM brown wire at "RR Fog":
 The yellow arrows in the next photo point out a bunch of the wires that go to or come from electrical-taped splices:
 Green: The thick green wire coming out of the harness bundle in the bottom left goes into electrical tape and comes out as four smaller green wires. The original and the four all have a white stripe. The four go to fuse positions marked "Sub Fan", Rad Fan", and 2 to "AC".
Red: The red on top starts from "H/Lamp LH", and the red under it is connected to "H/Lamp LR." They both split into two, and the other ends of those two go to the other fuse position marked the same as the starting point - two from "H/Lamp LH" go to another position marked "H/Lamp LH", and the other two go to a different position of "H/Lamp LR". I'm puzzled as to why these splices exist. I know the car was hit on this side (driver's side) before I owned it. The stock tension rod was bent when Bernie switched them out for me, and there is a non-OEM weld you can see in the upper left-hand corner of this photo (not where the arrow is pointing):
 Maybe these splices are a result of that accident? I can't imagine why they'd have to splice wires into these mundane systems - when I intially saw electrical tape, I figured it related to the alarm system, but that appears untouched. As for the fuel pump, it doesn't look like anything here relates to that, but could these splices be causing odd draws in power or something like that that would affect power elsewhere? I'm not sure where to go from here. I'd appreciate any ideas or suggestions. Do I just close it all back up and leave it alone? Is there something I should test? If you're still here, thanks for reading this far! More photos and details are on my site.
"I was previously a aviation mechanic and avionic technician and this car is harder to work on than Aircraft." - Hocuz77 03:04:56 02/28/06
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Is there an electrician in the house?? - 
