Boot Tidy

 No, not a cheaply made bag thing to store oddments, the Stylus' boot is now tidy.

When I bough it, the wiring in the boot was a mess. OK, the wiring everywhere was pretty bad - it's a kit car - but the boot was particularly bad. I did tidy it up a bit, but there were so many earth wires that I thought I'd leave it until I understood it better. With the engine now purring I decided that today was the day! Exhibit 1 is the rear bulkhead - it wasn't this bad, I had bound it in tape & tyraped it to structure, but there were just too many wires.

The fuel level sensor wire came a foot into the boot, then turned & went out again through the same hole - with an extension wire to reach, so that all got shortened & run nicely. There was a switch for the fuel pump - the one that gave all the problems a couple of months ago, so again, that got moved to a better place & the wires shortened. The mad earths which seemed to work in spite of me never really finding where it was attached to the chassis got given a positive path (see what I did there?) & the sheer quantity of wires reduced. I cut out the Fiat tail light connectors & shortened the wires - the nearside stop / tail light wires went right across to the off side, then came back, just so the Fiat connector could be used, but the wires to the off side lights were too short making the wiring cut across the corner. Having taped up the near side & clipped it to structure I then unwound the wrapping on the offside, to find that most of the wires were two feet too long & doubled back, only the earth was too short.

Having sorted all that out I did a final test. The near side brake light didn't work. Bu99er. I thought I checked things as I went, but now I was going to have to unwrap the loom to fault find, but just before that - check the bulb, just in case. The stop filament had blown. Phew. Easy fix. 

So there is is, all improved & properly clipped out of the way. Only took me three years to get round to it.

And of course there's some spare wire.