Learned alot; Accomplished a little

I don't have much in the way of good photography this week, but I did spend some significant time working on the wiring. When I got to the point where I was supposed to splice in extra wires for the front headlights (high beam, low beam, ground, parking) I learned that my soldering skills were really much worse than I remembered. I ended up trying over and over again to get a good clean looking connection that did not have gigantic globs of solder, but it was a struggle.

I ended up trying several different ways of making the mechanical connection of the wires, of soldering, of heat shrink wrapping. I must have done things over 7 or 8 times on one set of wires alone. Later, I tried crimping, but that did not go any better. Multiple tries to get the wires to fit in the connector, to get a good crimp, to get it all heat shrinked. Lots of fishing wires in and out of the loom, too.

In the end, I did get all 4 splices made and looking halfway decent. Some were soldered and some were crimped. I think I have the hang of the right techniques for twisting the wires together, for soldering, for crimping, for shrinking the heat wrap. Some of my problems are from crappy tools, but mostly its is me.

Anyway, the front light branch is basically in place and next come the front engine branches for power and signals, and the rear light branch. I am probably going to go to the rear light branch next as that is more straight-forward with what is required. Another upcoming step then will be to affix the fuse box under the dashboard. Hopefully I will get to all of that this upcoming week.