<VV> Main Wiring Harness installation

[Stephen Upham]

I posted this on the Covair Center, also, so if you saw it there,  
this is a repeat...more lines in the water.
Crain Nicol suggested removing the tunnel cover under the carpet in  
the cabin to solve the tunnel to cabin leg of the process.  I haven't  
tried to remove that yet, so I don't know if that is the answer to  
one of my next problems.  That would still leave how to cross the  
tunnel over or through the heater channel in the tunnel as noted in  
the body of this post.
I ran into three problems when trying to install the main harness in  
the rear of the car. The first problem involved getting the wire past  
a bolt that holds the rear seat belts. I had to take out the rear  
seats in order to loosen the bolt enough to pass it back into the  
floor board to make room. Then one of the clips that holds the wire  
to the chassis is right behind the horse collar shaped frame that  
runs from side to side. That was impossible to solve, so I just left  
it hanging loose there. Then the harness was almost impossible to  
pass through the hole in the fire wall. I had to get half of the  
connection through and then pass part of the wire through before the  
last half of the harness connection would pass through. After that, I  
took off the tunnel cover to see my next assignment. That may be the  
end of my part of this project. When I got to the front where it  
exits the tunnel and goes behind the gas tank on its path to the  
cabin, I realized that it would be a major PITA if not DNI. It has to  
pass across the center of the tunnel through the heater tunnel ?  
(picture on 12-21 and 12-22 of the ‘65 manual) which doesn't appear  
wide enough for the harness connection nor removable (no visible  
connections) and then behind the gas tank and up a body tunnel before  
reaching the cabin and the instrument panel compartment wiring  
harness connection. There is no way to tell if the tunnel leading to  
the cabin is wide enough to allow the harness connection to pass,  
either. I would try it without the harness connection, but the  
manufacturer of the harness strongly advised against disconnecting  
the harness wires from the harness, routing, and then reconnecting.  
So at this point, I'm dead in the water (garage)

Stephen U