crazybeanery0

First and foremost this is the way I tucked my driver's side harness. It is not the only way to do it, just one way. Remember, just be creative and take your time! I did not plan on making a how-to on this I just happened to take quite a few pics so I can look back at if I needed to for any reason and decided this might be helpful for someone else...

Materials/Tools
*Soldering Iron
*60/40 Rosin-core Solder (.062" diam.)
*Heat Shrink Tubing (1/8" + 3/16")
*Heat Gun
*Electrical Tape
*Wire Stripper
*Picking Tool/Micro-tip Screwdriver
*Wire Clothes-hanger

This was my starting point:



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1.) Remove driver's-side side skirt, fender, front bumper, windshield wipers and windshield wiper cowl (sorry I have no pics of this process). Here is what you end up with:



2.) Unplug/remove harness from the engine bay. Then, pull it through to the inside of the car.


Note: Do not cut/rip the rubber grommet where the harness enters the cabin because you will be re-using it.


3.) Here is the harness pulled out of the car:

Notice how there are two plugs at the end of it (one brown, one grey)? Well, after you completely unwrap the harness you can separate it into two separate harnesses; one harness for each plug. Here is a pic of the grey plug's harness after it has been separated/wrapped. This harness is for the three big plugs inside the bay mounted to the shock tower and it was pulled in (tucked) completely inside of the car. The brown plug's harness has all the wires for the headlights/corners, cruise control/sidemarkers if apl., windshield squirters + wiper motor.

After tucking the harness pictured above, I re-connected it inside and re-used the rubber grommet to seal it up. Note: I cut a slit at the bottom of the rubber grommet and shaved off a piece of it in order for the "now-larger" harness to fit through it.



4.) Now, you should be left with only the brown plug's harness (headlight harness). This is when you have to decide what wires you want to keep. For example, I removed the wires for my windshield squirters, brake master cylinder cap and extra wire for fog lights (I have a DX model so mine does not come with cruise control). After having all of this figured out, I pulled my harness through a hole beside where the hood cable runs through. It was covered by a plastic plug but I cut the center part of it out and ran my harness through it and pressed it back in. I also tucked/pulled my hood latch cable through the fender. Next I taped it all up. The taped up wires on the left are for the wiper motor and the wires on the right are for everything else. You will find out that the headlight wires (red/yellow) are extra long and will need to be shortened in a later step...

Note: The reason I took off my front bumper was because I had problems with the hood closing all the way after tucking my hood cable. To fix this, I had to remove the first plastic clip that follows right after the hood latch. I did not take a pic of this but it would be around this general area:

Removing this first plastic clip will relieve some of the tension in the cable and allow the hood latch to function properly.


5.) Tuck the wiper motor wires. I would have liked to de-pin the wires from the plug but it was being stubborn so I ended up cutting off the plug and soldering the wires after I had ran them through the fender.


To "tuck" the wiper motor wires I simply reached my finger down from the inside of the bay inside the cowl while stuffing the wires through the fender and pulled them through once I felt them. It's a pain... but you'll get it.



6.) Pull the harness through the fender. I cut a wire hanger and used it to aid me in pulling it through:



7.) Plug in everything and decide how much of the wire excess you want to cut. Then, you prep it all up for soldering. (Note: remember to slide your heat shrink tubing in over the wires before you solder them together!) I used the 1/8" heat shrink tubing to cover single wires attached to each other and the 3/16" tubing to cover two wires together after they each have been soldered/heat shrunk.



8.) Tape and Loom. Looking back at these pics I really wish I would've extended that ground wire (for the headlights) and taped it up with the rest of the harness to have it come out with/beside the other two ground wires:






9.)Finished product:



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*Here are some links that I found helpful while doing this:

http://civic-eg.com/viewtopic.php?t=92&highlight=
https://honda-tech.com/forums/showth...741857&page=10

ej1916

Very good detail. Good Job.

SHG_Claudio

speedooo

very nice write up

kaiba

Good job. Now get rid of the spark plug wires and go wireless.

EJeff8

I heard that app is gold on a Droid. Need at least 3G for Vtec, 4G for turbo.

MERC6372

ercfrmr

Looks really good

speedooo

jkd_eg8

damn i might try this this weekend.. good write up

J_24

Going to write up the passenger side?. Awesome job.

Dontoh

shiiitt. didnt know you could tuck the wiper motor wire like that.. i drilled a hole into the bottom of the metal where the motor is and used a grommet 8[

thecruzs2007@yahoo.com

awsome job!

graveltravel2

subscribed!

vtechjunkie

iTrader: (2)

Cool!

dem0nk1d

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MisterMonkey26

Wonderig is you had ever done a write up for the Passengers side also?

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

I see you didn't read the whole thread. He gave a link to a build that that also shows how to do the passenger side.

Natural Aspirations

Thanks!

crazybeanery0

Sorry, I have not/did not do a write-up for the passenger's side because I have not tucked it yet. I simply just unclipped the harness from the engine bay and zip-tied it along with the a/c stuff by the intake. Also removed the brackets holding the large grey clips from the harness and zip-tied those down as well. Black zip-ties are a must!



I've done a few things under my hood since I've made this thread. Here is a recent pic, as in I just went outside and took it for ya'll

dem0nk1d

What air box is that? Doesn't look to be the stock unit.

crazybeanery0

It's a Comptech Icebox. I bought it off of Weksos. Here's the link:
http://www.weaksauceparts.com/store/...cat=752&page=1

Umoan4thebone

great write up!

foo fighters

Did that air filter box come w/ a filter? If so, is it drop in ?? And does it look like a SPOON one ???

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

You must have missed this part.