Checking connectors and the harness. Cleaning connectors, re-doing splices a PO had done with plain butt connectors. Now double-heat shrink connectors. I found heat shrink at Harbor Freight with adhesive on the inside. Also re-wrapping some of the harness. Will need to replace some of the multi-pin connectors. Lewis Preston, owner of The Electrical Connection, is checking to see if he has any. I also found them in a Dennis Kirk catalog. Still to go over all of the places someone used quick-taps on the wires with liquid electrical tape to seal the insulation. Oh, I hate those things! They cut into the copper reducing the original conductor, create a poor connection, and allow water to go both directions under the original connector insulation. Very seldom useful, and then only in dry areas.
Meanwhile, the dowel is due in tomorrow, and I have the head bolts all moly-coated laid out with a paper towel over them, the new head gasket laying on top of the frame, and necessary tools laid out in preparation. I want to get this on and the compression tested so that the engine can come out of the frame. This fall will be a great time (it seldom is low humidity in the East Tennessee rain forest) to paint the frame, so it would be good to have it ready by then.
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