Ok, I may look dumb but at least I have some common sense!
So to start off the three day weekend, I decided to finish the other wiring project. Back in 2013-ish, my time was completely occupied by this little 1976 BMW 2002 and so the 4runner sat in the sun in my apartment complex parking lot. The odd thing though was that while the battery was new, the 4runner had a parasitic leak. I tried everything under the sun to find it and eventually after much frustration, I tore out every bit of aftermarket wiring I had and started all over. It was a bitch of a task which included resoldering some connections and grounding everything again, but the leak was gone.
So fast forward to tonight: nervously I grabbed my socket set and removed the rear driver's side seat to see if I had completely removed the e-locker harness that I painstakingly wired and soldered together. I pulled the carpet back...and lo and behold I had saved my wiring harness! I tucked all that wiring (sans the aftermarket e-locker switch which I lost) under the seat.
I then lowered and removed the spare tire and started playing auto mechanic Twister to clip off the dual harnesses into the locker unit. All looked fine until I pulled the wiring through. It looks like either I forgot to secure the harness (the side closest to the locker) to the mount or the nut and bolt came off at some point. The end result is this almost melted in half breather tube. It looks like the blown up T1000's from Terminator 2 when Arnold rode the big factory cog up and shot his M72 grenade launcher. Yeah you remember the scene.
Anyways, questions for you guys who extended your breather tubes: how did you do it, what did you use to extend it, and did you cut off the check valve thing at the end to do it? Oh, where did you route it to?
So to be 100% sure about how and what wire colors I wire to the OEM harness, I unravelled ALL that black tape just to make sure I used the same color throughout for each wire as I have a penchant to sometimes cobble wires of different color. But not this time as I remembered that I spent way too much money buying the wires for this project. But like I said, I had to verify nonetheless. Not to mention I used the color RED for two wires that were soldered to two different color OEM wires. Not a good move, but I recall I ran out of wire of a different color and I had to make sure these two wires were connected to.
Which leads me to this and my contribution to this thread: a wiring template with clear, easy to understand pics. Hope someone gets some use out of it.
So anyways, tomorrow's going to be an interesting day. For starters, I've decided to wire in the OEM ECU and OEM Diff locker switch I acquired on eBay many moons ago. If it doesn't work, I'll install the CJK Off Road harness with a safety switch.
Anyways if anyone has advice on repairing the breather tube, I'm all ears.
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Originally Posted by Seanz0rz
