As I have some rare time of work at the moment I decided to do the prep work for when the unit arrives.
The battery and unit will be located in the passenger compartment.
I had some problems with my new alternator which it turned out was because the old one had an internal regulator, which this one doesn't. I got this fixed by the 'experts' at Prolek in Diss, who made a complete cock of the job. Where they drilled the bodywork to fit the reg they didn't rust protect it, didn't screw the cover back on the reg properly so it was loose, did shit cable runs with single insulated cable with no secondary protection flapping loose and chaffing. I did some remedial work immediately by putting what I could quickly access in heat shrink and using some bits of flexi conduit but much of it was still unprotected so I decided to take the bull by the horns and sort some of the rest of the cabling out as well.
As you can see, the existing cabling has turned into a bit of a birds nest. The cable thats covered in grey and brown heatshrink is one Prolek put in and runs back to a fuse in the main board by the steering wheel. As you can see, the routing leave a lot to be desired! It goes through the bulkead where the heater unit is located in the passenger foot well so to find the route through I used the yellow cable road in the pic
Once that was established, I located the cable from the other side, it's just in a wee bit of flex that was used temporarilly after Prolek did their stuff. The remainder of the cable run was just that cable being strung against the heater ducts under the dash and cable tied into position, with no protection! Some way below amateur standards in my book.
I have no idea what the 2 cables with the blue plug are for but I pulled them out so that later I can protect them better. No idea what the white plug was for, maybe the electric windows that are no longer installed.
Another example of the crap routing! There was already some damage to the insulation on this cable
I disconnected the cable from the fuse board and cut all the cable ties, then pulled as much as I could back into the engine bay. I then taped the new cables to it. I don't know how many will be needed so I've run 3 27amp ones. The whole shebang was then sleeved in stretchy sleeving, then pushed into a piece of flex and pulled using the existing cable and pushed from the engine bay until it was through.
The conduit is now located behind the lower dash pad/heater bits, over the next couple of days it will be fixed in place and some other bits of tidying up done, pics to follow!!