Engine Room Cleanup

If you've gone this far, you might as well take some time to clean out the engine room.  This is a process, and whether you're painting or just cleaning up, you're going to need to remove a lot of stuff.  Take pictures!  This way, you can (a) show your friends how nasty your engine room is, and (b) show yourself where to put things back later.  In this series of slides, I am taking pictures of the harnesses and AC pipes, since those are coming out...

The AC isn't going back in.  AC compressors are heavy, and with the K-series, I don't want to mess with hooking up all new lines and stuff.  Plus, this is a toy car, that will ideally only come out on beautiful days.

Obviously, most of the harnesses will still go back in (except the AC sub-harness and the washer tank harness).

Pics:

Beween the pic above and the one below, the AC lines were removed.  They won't work for a K-swapped Civic as far as I know.  They will come out in one piece, but it's like one of those impossible puzzles you get from a museum.

At this point, I'm ready to pull the cabin harness out of the car, when I realize that the hood pull cable is routed through the harness.  While thusfar, HCM has done an impeccable job assembling this car, I feel like this wasn't entirely intentional.

Before deciding to remove the harness the right way, I was debating just cutting it out of there.  But no short-cuts... mark the position of the hood lock, pull it out, detach the cable from the hood lock, and pull the hood release cable back through the harness.  Then put the cable right back where you pulled it from.

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-J