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I partial rewired both my 83's myself. Only the five wires coming out of the gray plug at the firewall were loosing their insulation. Let's see if I can remember their destination; oil pressure (black), alternator (red), coil (brown), starter solenoid (yellow/blue), temp (yellow). I used stranded (not solid) 12 gauge THHN insulation wire. I was lucky to know an electrican that gave me the wire, although I had to sub. a couple of colors. I purchased the crimp on end connectors. I rerouted the alternator and oil pressure wires around the passenger side. Originally, these all ran under the crank shaft pulley. I also replaced and rerouted the vacuum hose going to the ignition control module. There is no way to do this wiring job without removing the intake manifold. On the 83 GL (assembled in Beligum), the electroinc fuel injection harness was routed around the outside of riser four on the intake manifold but on the 83 DL (assembled in Sweden) it was threaded between riser 3 and 4 so I had to disconnect every one of the fuel injection wires so I could slip them out of the intake manifold. This was my first time removing an intake manifold and, other than the wiring threading deal, it was less than two hours. I took the opportunity to clean up the intake manifold, vacuum orfices and PCV stuff (flame trap, hoses, oil separater box, etc). I slipped the new wires that ran close to the same destination into heat shrink tubing to add some protection and make it look neater (I didn't shrink the tubing) but this is certainly optional. I cut the old wires a couple of inches back from the gray connector plug and soldered the new wires to the old. Unplug the plug so soldering can be done on a bench. I did cover these joints with heat shrink tubing and shrink the tubing. The wires going out of the other half of the gray plug were in good condition. If I were doing this again, I'd probably go ahead and replace the other wires going under the crank shaft pulley (three distrubtor wires, one knock sensor wire and one coil wire.
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