BHC

superc_1

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I have gotten a bhc (bulk head connector) off of a parts rig for the engine bay (male and female part only). I've figure out how to get the male end apart so I can install new wires but how do you get the cover thats over the bhc on the engineside off the connector? Anybody done this? I think I can fix my old harness if I can get the weather proof cover off and then rewire? Pictures? Thanks

mr. Mayben would you have a wiring diagram for a 76 terra w/ auto and a/c diagram?
 
A bulkhead connector system exist on any vehicle for one reason...production line installation. Other than that they are worthless. Why replace a shit-quality part with another used shit-quality part that has the same issues? The only reason that I can think of is...for a complete, correct restoration. Otherwise, get rid of it!

How?

Sparky did his here a few weeks ago while learning how us make wiring repairs and crimps. Simply replace each male and female "bulkhead termination with an appropriate insulated male or female bullet or slide connector. Then seal the hole to prevent engine bay gases from entering the cockpit.

A neater way is to use a barrier strips mounted to the bulkhead with ring terminal connectors. The barrier strip must be of sufficient ampacity for the load, I use 30a strips with a separate connection point for the ammeter feeds (the two 10 gauge wires, one of which uses a fusible link which is the red segment). There is enough slack in the interior harness to pull it through the bulkhead if you remove and oem tiewraps under the dash that secure it.

To remove the bulkhead-mounted portion of the oem connector, cut it away with a razor knife.

I'll have to dig up the correct schematic you are looking for.

This is a pic of sparky's bulkhead connector elimination training project. He ran out of time before he got to eliminating the other connector, but that one is not the problematic one. Now the rig has been sold and someone else will have to finish it! This was a repair so that sparky and mrs. Sparky could eliminate gittin' stranded at wallyworld from their lives, this is not a best practices kinda fix, but a repair that is functionally sound.
 

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I understand most peoples way of doing things, and we call it po virus)? If I was going to start splicing things I would just install a 21-circuit wiring system and be done, but I personally enjoy trying to make all of this old shzt work like they did in the first place (anal is what they call it I think). To me its the hunt and not the kill at the end that blows my skirt up. I'm not going for a concourse restoration but just want to put it back like it was. If a person had to deal with this stuff day in and day out, yeh, splice the hell out of it and go on down the road. All that being said; I have figured out how to repair the bhc and if you have time to find the wiring diagram I'll be able to put it back good as new. I sit at a compooter all day long and I love nothing more than gettin a little grease and oldiron shzt all over me trying to figure this crap out. If I had my old shop back I would have totally taken the harness apart and made a brand new one just for the fun of it, but I just have to make do with what I do, I guess. It'll be all good in the end. Hell I'm so cheap I took two bad fuel sending units apart and made one good one out of the two. I'm old enough; because, I remember my grandparents would not throw anything away and fix what they had instead of buying new and I think it rubbed off on me.
 
This is the basic diagram for '74>'76 sii with electronic ignition (gold box system).
 

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