Originally posted by Knestis:
I don't think there's much question on this point, frankly. Running a parallel wire to fix a break is a repair. Wholesale replacement of wires in the stock loom is a repair. Building a new loom by replacing all of the melted wire, using the OE connectors, is a repair...
Putting the stock loom in the glove box and running a few new wires to suit one's own purposes is outside of the spirit of the rules.
It's that last bit that makes me a NERD, I guess.
No, talking about the
spirit of the rules requires you to turn in your Rules Nerd badge. Spirit has has nothing to do with it. The rule is written. What it says is what it says, spirit be damned.
So, by your belief written above, you're OK with me building a new wiring harness for the components I will use and running that through the car and using only that, leaving the stock harness limp inside the car? You'd better say yes. The minute I can replace individual wires and leave the old one intact is the minute I make my own wiring harness.
In fact, with these discussions here and elsewhere, I'm strongly considering doing this anyway. My wiring harness is balled up in the driver's footwell in my car right now waiting for me to paint it. If I just create a harness for those things I need to connect, hooking my car back up will be a breeze and the harness will be much more reliable and easier to work on should I have an electrical problem.
You know what, I think it's time for me to write to Topeka for a ruling on this one. It could save me a bunch of work.
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BTW, I
will run my original and unused harness roughly where it originally went. It just won't connect to anything.
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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
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[This message has been edited by Geo (edited August 24, 2004).]
[This message has been edited by Geo (edited August 24, 2004).]