I'm going to repaint the entire car and engine bay (red again). I don't really want to remove everything (all interior), just in the engine bay. How can I get the wires through the firewall? The driver's side can't come through because there is a mess of wires near the fuses inside the car. I didn't even look at the passenger side.


The wires I'm talking about are to the left of where the fuses are and to the right of the brake booster.

Do you guys think I should strip the entire car and repaint everything or just do the body and engine bay?

Thanks

 

thats cause there's two connectors for the driver side(lhd) wire harness, its inside the cabin, towards the upper firewall... just take out your dash, its not that hard, just make sure you drop your steering wheel and it will be 10X easier to pull it out...

im sure someone will chime in with a helms pic on the location... im sayin, you cant miss it once you take off the dash. GL

edit:
and for the pass. side, it will be apparent what you do, once you pull the dash off.. pull the harness through.. but push the boot first, from bay side(IMO) and it will slowly just push through.. pull harness and your set.. actually you might have to take the bottom half of your fuse box apart, and unplug the fuse box from the harness... and than pull it!

 

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we did my friends ek... we push the harness wires in to the car.. look ever thing out and just pulled the brake line forward

 

No, you dont have to pull the dash.

For the driver side.. your going to have to lay down, upside down with your head under dash and you will see a the plug up top. Its close to/right under where your vin plate is on your dash. The white cover/protector over the plug is a pain in the *** though. I had to break it to free up the plug.

For the passenger side.. no such luck. take your fuse box and battery out. There are 3 plugs on the bottom of the fuse box.. Once its out of the way, take your glove box out and pull the carpet back a bit. Have one of your friends feed you the wire harness backwards through the firewall until its all on the passenger floor.

Since your doing all of this.. take the brake booster off and MC off. That wont take much more time.

 

Anyone know how to disconnect driver side engine harness from under the dash on an em1?