Frankenharness

[Teddyzee]

Here's the passenger car pinout

EDIT:Oops, that was in the previous post. Excellent work, cammeddrz! Those of you following along, notice the subtle differences in those four cars listed, between wire colours and missing circuits.

Remeber, you can find all those circuits in Crown Vic harness with a multi meter. I'll assume it's a big crazy harness like the Lincoln Mark VII LSC harness I stated with.

I suggest keeping the car harness, use the connectors from your truck engen harness so it's still removeable. And this harness will be easily modified to mass air if you choose in the future.

 

[Shran]

cammeddrz, thanks for the diagrams! Those should help.

Here's the passenger car pinout

EDIT:Oops, that was in the previous post. Excellent work, cammeddrz! Those of you following along, notice the subtle differences in those four cars listed, between wire colours and missing circuits.

Remeber, you can find all those circuits in Crown Vic harness with a multi meter. I'll assume it's a big crazy harness like the Lincoln Mark VII LSC harness I stated with.

I suggest keeping the car harness, use the connectors from your truck engen harness so it's still removeable. And this harness will be easily modified to mass air if you choose in the future.

I may end up just using the 'Vic harness, it is big but not necessarily complex because the donor car had virtually no options besides cruise and AC.

I donated a 2.9 fuel injector harness to my friend's junkyard a while back, and now he wants $40 to give me my 3' of wire back... it is aggravating.

The confusing part to me is that I have different connectors on the 'Vic harness than any reference I've been able to dig up. I know I have to cut them off anyway but I can't recall if they actually plugged into the vehicle or something else - like I have a small round 8 pin, a rectangle 6 pin with 3 wires, and one more that I can't remember at the moment. I am probably second guessing myself and will just have to cut open the harness and trace wires back, but it seems like my memory is just shot as to where stuff used to be plugged into.

 

[Teddyzee]

I would leave the connectors on the car harness for now.

Start with one lead probing the circuits at the ECU connector, and find where that goes usung the other lead, by probing the connectors.

Use the continuity setting on the meter, the one with the 'ground" symbol.

Remember, some circuits don't go directly from ECU to a connector, as some stop/start at the TFI (distributor).

Refer to the colour Mustang diagrams available online, they are basically the same as what you have, with possibly different colours.

I did this, and labelled all the circuits before I cut the connectors off, and began lengthening/shortening/splicing to the Ranger connector(s).
Best of luck!

 

[doorgunner]

Now I remember why i went with a carb/dist. set-up.......1 hot wire / 1 ground wire.....VVVVVVVVVVVVVV-ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM !

 

[Shran]

I would leave the connectors on the car harness for now.

Start with one lead probing the circuits at the ECU connector, and find where that goes usung the other lead, by probing the connectors.

Use the continuity setting on the meter, the one with the 'ground" symbol.

Remember, some circuits don't go directly from ECU to a connector, as some stop/start at the TFI (distributor).

Refer to the colour Mustang diagrams available online, they are basically the same as what you have, with possibly different colours.

I did this, and labelled all the circuits before I cut the connectors off, and began lengthening/shortening/splicing to the Ranger connector(s).
Best of luck!

Good call. I think I am going to cut all the plastic loom off my harness and re-tape and loom it so it's not so dirty.

Now I remember why i went with a carb/dist. set-up.......1 hot wire / 1 ground wire.....VVVVVVVVVVVVVV-ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM !

Certainly would be easy that way. I was at the Ford dealer looking for wiring diagrams last week, talking to one of the senior techs... he didn't think it was possible to swap a fuel injected engine from one car to another. Kinda made me laugh.

Oh yeah, my motivation: can't do this with a carb

 

[cammeddrz]

yep efi all the way for a 4wd