Today I removed the third and final piece of the wiring harness, the rear portion that powers the tail lights, reverse light, and license plate lamp.
First I removed the single reverse lamp, which was connected to the frame by two 7/16" bolts. When I first bought the car I thought that the other reverse lamp must be missing but soon discovered that there is only one (left) reverse lamp on these quirky little cars.
Then I began freeing up the harness from the frame. I previously disconnected all of the rear lights, all that remained was to remove the harness itself. The harness was held to the frame by several clips that cinch together and hold the harness. I pried these apart using a flat head screwdriver and left the harness dangling as I moved from the rear of the car towards the front. Two clips were located behind the rear wheel but I was able to reach them without removing the wheel itself.
Similarly the harness ran the length of the frame on the driver's side with a clip every twelve inches or so. It fed through the holes in the frame where necessary.
Towards the front of the car, just before reaching the front wheel, the harness went through the frame and turned upwards and tucked into the engine bay.
The rear harness connected into the main harness where the front harness branched off the dash harness. I was able to disconnect it here and pull the rear harness free out towards the back of the car.
This completed the removal of all three wiring harnesses. Here is a shot of how they all link together.
There are a lot of connections but the whole thing is still fairly simple by new car standards. At the very least I am going to clean up the wiring harness and may end-up re-wrapping the whole thing in new electrical tape.
