Driver footwell rear wiring harness routing

[jjbunn]

Does anyone have a photo of how the wiring harness, which connects to the main harness with a connector block in the driver's footwell, gets routed behind the footwell side trim panel and under the sill and footwell carpets?

It's not at all clear to me how it should go: all the trim and carpet was ripped out of my TR6 before I got it.

I just know somebody like Dale or Paul will have a nice clear photo

 

[Tinster]

 

[TR6oldtimer]

Here is a shot of the harness at the foot well. The connector is under the tape. As Dale has shown, the wiring then goes rearward next to the inner sill. There should be metal tabs along the route to hold the harness fast.

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[Guest]

Ray, isn't it amazing what brake fluid can do to a footwell.

 

[TR6oldtimer]

Ray, isn't it amazing what brake fluid can do to a footwell.

Especially if the car was not driven and allowed to set out in the weather in the back yard for 12 years.

 

[jjbunn]

Here is a shot of the harness at the foot well. The connector is under the tape. As Dale has shown, the wiring then goes rearward next to the inner sill. There should be metal tabs along the route to hold the harness fast.

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Excellent Ray, and Dale, thanks. However, I am still unclear on a couple of things:

1) How does the footwell side panel fit over the bulge produced by the harness connector (behind duct tape in Ray's photo)? I has thought that the connector would tuck in to one of the cavities near the door jamb.

2) When fitting the sill carpet, I assume that the carpet goes under the harness? If so, then a portion of it is visible before it disappears under the floor carpet and goes rearwards (as shown in Dale's photo).

Here's what mine looks like at the mo:

Many thanks!

(I have been having a frustrating afternoon trying to fit the darned door panels! I think I may end up screwing them on: those clips are an invention of the Devil!)

 

[DNK]

Julian, the footwell connectors fit into 1 of the holes provided. The wires then fit BEHIND the carpet and then UNDER the floor carpets and then under the arch carpet to the boot.

 

[TR6oldtimer]

Place then tape the connector high up on the most forward indent on the foot well panel, then tape the bottom as shown. Once the cover is in place you will not see the cable. There is a strip of carpet applied to the inner sill which should go over the cable as it reaches the floor.

 

[BobbyD]

Here's the only picture of the sill that I have. My situation is a little different as I was installing Dan's wire harness and the thickness/gauge of the wire itself made for much larger bundles.
Then I put a split plastic harness over it and the sill carpet and floor carpet covered it all.

 

[jjbunn]

Julian, the footwell connectors fit into 1 of the holes provided. The wires then fit BEHIND the carpet and then UNDER the floor carpets and then under the arch carpet to the boot.

So, in my photo, the harness connector block should be positioned in the cavity just to the left?

And the sill carpet glued *over* the harness?

Is that right?

 

[jjbunn]

Thanks Bob ... in that area my harness has a branch for the transmission tunnel light. It also has a couple of other terminated pigtails (I wonder what they might have been for?)

 

[DNK]

Seat buzzer maybe

 

[2wrench]

Julian: Once the wires are run/affixed/taped/however
kept in place on the left driver's side footwell,
the footwell side panel has enough air gap to cover the
wire(s)/connector bundle.

Tuck them in the lowest point you can find (crevice)
and run them straight down to the floor and back.
They will be covered by first the side panel cover;
second by the piece of cut/trimmed carpet designed
to hide them.

Pictures:

The carpet:

They end up underneath at this junction of the back
before splittng going toward the boot and also accross
to the passenger side of the car on my car...'74 TR6:

Without a lot more review of pics and stuff, it seems
you might have to run your wires rearward first, toward
the headlight dimmer switch topside, first, then drop
it down at a 90, something like that.

 

[2wrench]

Opps, might be confusing (oh boy!). When I say you
might have to run them rearward, I meant to say you
might have to run them forward, towards the front of the
car topside until you're about over the headlight
foot switch area, then drop them down from there.

Clear as mud? Maybe the photos will make up for my
ramblings.