Wiring My CHEAP C5 Corvette Has It Almost READY To FIRE.

On today's episode of WatchJRGO, the work continues. And today, it's on the shop and the Corvette. What is going on, guys? I am WatchJRGO, and today, Durrell is up there on the scissor lift finishing the vacuum of the walls, which look suddenly incredible. There's so much more light over here. Just cleaning the walls the rest of the way. Wow. So, he started over there in that corner and went all the way to there. And I, of course, did some of that. And then, he finished to there. So, a ton of vacuuming, and the walls are finally looking the way we wanted. Sure, it took a while to get all that knocked out, but it's going really fast now. So, outside, I've been cleaning the tree row up, which has been a long process, and I needed a way to get rid of the wood. And I wasn't about to pay thousands of dollars to one of those tree companies to do basically nothing, start up a shredder for 20 minutes. So, I made a pile. I've been out here with the chainsaw, cutting the tree row out, getting all these little junk saplings that are all just weeds out of there. And I'm pretty sure it's completely illegal to burn. So, we came up with a better plan, a smaller fire. You can see the small fire is rocking and rolling right now. It's all hedged, so it's incredibly hot in there. And I have made pretty good progress. You can see the pile over there is where it picks back up. But I'm gonna come out here with the chainsaw right now and keep cutting stuff up and pulling it out of the tree row. Hopefully, we get all of this out. The goal is for the whole tree row to look like this, which is a section that I cleaned out. I've kind of put some spacing in between, but it's still weeds, but I think it looks better like a proper tree row. I tried to come out here and just stagger them back and forth and back and forth. So, that side's done. This side is about to get after it. And of course, we're using the Milwaukee M18 chainsaw. Battery-powered chainsaw is pretty much the greatest thing in the world because no carburetor and you just pull the trigger. And I've got tons of batteries, so we can just change batteries. About every 30 to 45 minutes is how often we're changing batteries. So, that is just unbelievably awesome. 30 to 45 minutes with a chainsaw is a long, long time. You're tired at that point. Also, I sucked so much junk up cleaning out the hedgerow, I think I broke the oil seal in it. It's leaking everywhere. We've got some of that super fresh wet wood right there. Just cooking it from the inside out. All right, anyone who ever lit a sweet fire knows you can't just give up on the sweet fire. So, I was gonna stop, but we just kept on feeding it. So, I figured I'd just come in here and cut a bunch of this up so we could feed it some more. And we might just let it slowly burn the whole pile out. Building a camper over there near the building. Today, our game plan is to hook up as much of this car as possible. I have no expectation that we'll have it started today because obviously we still need a radiator. I'm making a to-do list in my head here. We need the sub harness for the driver front speed sensor. We need something else that's really important. It needs oil filled. And it needs, there's just like one more thing that's way more important than all those. I have no idea what it is. Probably order the Z06 suspension, which I just keep putting off. I should probably do that right now because it honestly needs to go back on today. Which, it's just the shocks. It's just the shocks, that's it. But today, we're gonna try to dress this engine, get all the wiring on it. We've got most of it together. Oh, O-rings for the AC compressor. That was the other thing on the to-do list. The little O-rings that go on the block that bolts into the back of the compressor. They're probably fine, but that's just something you should definitely do because it's not exactly fun to get to. So, let's start throwing wires on this thing and see just how far we get. I'm expecting we can get all the injection wired, accessory belt on, alternator on, obviously, before the accessory belt. And that'll involve wiring, alternator, starter on, tightening down the clamp on the torque tube. Just a whole bunch of little things that need done to get this done. And the wiring is obviously the cool, fun part. So, we're gonna go ahead and start with that torque tube clamp, and we can put the little inspection cover back on that, and then keep going from there. So, to tighten down that torque tube clamp, you need a 10 millimeter Allen wrench that you can get way up inside there, and you can spin that clamp to orient it wherever you want. So, I will say, a long extension. We have these Power Torque Allens. You'll need a three-eighths to a quarter adapter and a long extension, and something to get in there, because it's pretty deep inside it. Hop in here and rotate the clamp. You can literally just turn it if the collar's loose enough. I have it right where I want it. So, about a 12 inch extension. Gets you where you need to be. I don't think it needs to be crazy tight, but that tight. It's as tight as it's getting, because I'm actually afraid I'm gonna twist off this quarter inch adapter. Throw your cover back in there. Good to go. All right, that's one of those don't forget things. And this is a fun one. We actually had to lower the subframe again about a half inch. We just backed off the nuts, and then that was enough to let me pull out this speed sensor harness that was kind of trapped up there with all the wiring. So, I got it untrapped, and this actually runs all the way around the whole car, so you do need all the length. This speed sensor goes here, and this one goes all the way over here. All right, so this stud is all the way up on the bottom of the trunk subfloor there, and I have a nut that goes on there. This is the brake line retention, and we just dropped this. You might not have to drop this, but we went ahead and did it to make sure the brake lines would have enough flex as the subframe came down. So, you've got a bolt way up there, and then you also have a couple nuts that came off the actual transaxle mounting, and those hold the shift cable linkage here. So, all I have to do here is kind of get this started, and then throw those bolts on. And of course, stuff's falling in my eyes. It is, it's an old car. It's dirty. Prindle is hanging down. These things cook on the connectors on the Prindle there, so we left that alone, and actually just pulled the whole thing off the side. Anyway, I got my setup to tighten down this top bolt here. That's good enough. It doesn't need much. It's just retention. And then a 13 for the shift cable linkage here. Looks good to me. Pop the shift cable on. I finally broke down and did it. I should have done this the day I bought the car, but as you guys know, whenever I get a C5, I like to throw the Z06 suspension in it. It's just something I've always done. It's a better shock. And this one over here, you can see it's completely trash. It should at least rebound some, but it's just completely gone. And then this one over here is the one that we could see was covered in oil. So it was leaking quite a bit. This one actually still works. You can see it rebound there, but it's definitely not much longer for this world. That one's okay. I think it should be a little harder to push than that. And we'll check out the last one here. This one's perfect, basically. So we can get everything else back on after I get that new radiator, but I'm not gonna bolt the uprights back together until we get the shocks, because if you've ever done these things, it's a huge pain to hold the shock while you're putting in those little tiny bolts to hold it together. So we're just gonna leave it kind of chilling, just like this, because we can run the engine no problem without having this on there. Everything on the transmission, all the way back to here, is back together. Wired, bolts are back in. And I think I should lower this thing down and route this wiring. You know, you gotta, there's a speed sensor on top of the transmission. I'm gonna plug that in, which I'll do right now. And it plugs in blind, like, I guess I could have lowered the car, like I said. All right, now that one's in. There's this clip right here. We can put that. And this harness comes over here, plugs in to this plug. I do think it's supposed to route underneath here. Okay, the back of the car is completely wired in just a few minutes. It's only like, what, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight connectors total. And I mean, there's a ground you gotta stick in. A whole bunch of clamps need to go right back in the correct place, because the CVs will get into them if you don't. So we've got all that routed back together. Obviously, these are the speed sensors that will get hooked up as soon as all the wheels are back on, or well, at least the uprights are back on, really. And that's it. These are the e-brake cables. Also go on once the uprights are on. So the whole back is wrapped. For now, we're pretty much ready to shove the CVs in and put the brakes and wheels and all that good stuff on. Now, we're gonna head up to the front and start wiring this engine. Well, really, the fire is what we're doing today. We burnt so much. Look at the pile. Look at this. The pile, we knocked three foot off it or something like that. It was big. Dude, we knocked out some wood today. Now, there's a bunch more out there we gotta get, but we needed an incinerator. That's the real issue. We need to cut a hole in the bottom and hook my Milwaukee blower up to this thing, because we're not getting a good burn out of this. The ashes are all big, thick, partial wood. It's not really nice ash. So we have to keep coming out here with the stirring stick and opening up an air channel, and then it all starts burning again. Like, this is never gonna stop burning. It's gonna be burning all night. I think we're gonna have to just pour a bunch of water in it and stop the burn, unfortunately, because we can't leave this here burning. I guess we could cap it. Corvette coming down. We are ready to start on the top of the engine now that the back of this thing is all buttoned up. Also, the speed sensor wires that were hanging down under the car, I went ahead and got those kind of temporarily routed. I'd say they're really close to where they need to land, which gets them out of the way and not hanging down anymore. So as soon as this thing comes down, we're ready to start on top of the engine. All right, zip tie is coming off. They held the ABS pump on. That's out of the way. This line can just go away here. Man, look how much space you get back in the engine bay once this little hose goes away forever. I do have to get underneath the car, pull out the pump and the hose, everything that connects to, that's all going away, which really cleans it up in here. Let's see. Looks like we've got a ground here, ABS ground. That's gotta get this tab pulled off. Okay, grounds are back on. Obviously, the grounds end up being the most important part of the engine. If you know, you know, if you've ever fought grounds. So this harness here, more grounds. This one goes on the back of the head. It's very fun to get back on there, but we will get it. Have no fear. It's just gonna be just a chore, no big deal. We have a fuel injector. And then this went to, it's really tough to tell where that goes, but I guess we're gonna figure it out. There's another one and another one. Injectors just dropping right on. And this of course is coils. When we have to go, obviously we have all those brand new coils. So we're gonna have to pull the old ones off and clean up our coil mounting brackets. Then we put all those MSD coils on and it'll be pretty and ready to go. Also this, if you guys notice it's flopping around, very loose. This is that aftermarket fuel pressure sensor. There's no connection in the factory harness for that. So somebody probably ran that to like a gauge or this thing might've been on a standalone. Either way, we don't have that. So our game plan is going to be just kind of tightening that down and leaving it right there after I'm done. And then maybe later on we'll add a fuel pressure gauge. Fuel line, we can go ahead and stick that on. There it goes. Nice solid click and vacuum for the brake booster. This stuff goes pretty fast once it's all in position. So now the next fun thing we get to fight is where's this power steering thing mount? Oh, right here. This is where it mounts. Okay. Now I'm in here doing the fun time consuming part. It's getting this one line we had to take off the ABS pump, put back on. And of course there's a ton of thread on those flare nuts on there. So it takes a long time, but we're making good time. And then I can go down there and actually tighten down the bolts on the ABS pump. I left them loose, so I had a little movement. All right, the power steering pump. Well, not really the pump, obviously it was already in there. Power steering reservoir really fought. So just like a tip when you're doing that, what we had to do is go back and loosen this whole bracket, the alternator bracket up, which is really tough because obviously with the pulley on there, you can't really get to the bolts. So we were able to just sneak a wrench on there, got it done. Obviously you can't pull the pulley off because ABS pump's in the way. So I backed the bolts out just like quarter turn, enough so I could wiggle the bracket. And then we had to take the power steering reservoir, really drain this, definitely drain this, and it will change your whole life. If you have it drained, you can pull the bottom clamp off the reservoir, slide it to the side and then get these bolts in. And I had to like wiggle the bracket to make everything line up because obviously with these different heads, it didn't line up like perfectly the way it used to. So now it's all on there. We got all the bolts in and then we've got all the clamps back on the reservoir. We did end up draining it, of course, to make this happen. And a lot of it drained on the floor, even though we tried to catch it all. Now I'm brick cleaning all the accessory drive, obviously. You don't wanna leave a bunch of oil in there. And we're ready now, I think, to get our coil packs built out. Obviously all the injectors are hooked up. I took just one more second to hook up this whole side. So this side's done except for the coil harness and this coil harness. And of course, all that wire over there, that's gonna get shoved down to the bottom. That's the starter. Fun stuff like that. Starter and crank position. So let's do those coils. All right, we have our MSD GM blaster coils right here. And here are our factory coils on their brackets and all that good stuff. So we're gonna completely strip these down. And here's the other thing you guys always wanted to see, a workbench. I don't actually care. I love working on the floor, but we're gonna see how fast we can rip these. Is this turned down? It's turned up. We got a little straggler here. This is a clip from the beauty cover. There we go. That is all the coils. Now to get the wiring off of there, because obviously we don't wanna go submerge that in the parts washing solution. So just kind of pop all those little tabs there. And then there's a tab here. And these things should be bare metal. Looks way better, I think. Now it's time to put our harnesses back on our nice, pretty new brackets. If I can clip it on. There it goes. Pop all of these little guys back on here. And it's time for our brand new coils, which we get to open up right now. New car parts day. Everyone knows that's always the best day, isn't it? Didn't take long at all. I think we have like 15 minutes in this whole process. Obviously changing coils, quick, easy mod to your car. If you wanna do something fun. And now we're ready to open up our box. Stickers. The instructions. Plug them in. It does show you how to wire them, which is kind of cool. So let's go ahead and pop these things out and start dropping them on the coils. Basically just plug them in, put the lock back in. I could have wiped down the harness, I guess. Maybe I shouldn't, because the rest of this is too pretty. If you are using the beauty covers and you don't change out the bolts, three of them go on the driver's side and two of them, I think it's these two, go on the passenger's side. So do remember that, that way you don't get them. Now, you're not short when you look at the bolts and would say, what's going on? Like I just did. Cool, there's one done. All right, we're ready to drop our beautiful new coils on here. And of course, this is much easier with the alternator off. There we go. All that stuff drops down below and this stuff just sits right on there. Boom. We're just putting a couple of bolts in these for now, just in case I have to pull them again, but I think we're close to actually wrapping this. It went the whole way, man. Can't beat that. Well, there you go. A fun day with lots of fire. Not the fire that we want out of this, but we got a lot done cleaning up the shop. Obviously, like I said, huge progress on the walls. We're trying to kind of do everything at the same time. So, you know, it's all just like we're getting bits and pieces of it shot while doing like a lot of work. But the engine is mostly wired here. Next up, obviously we're gonna get the radiator hopefully tomorrow, and that will let me finish plumbing everything and the whole back of the things together like you guys saw. And we're getting really close to getting the whole front of the thing together. And then we should be able to start it up and wait a little bit for the suspension to come in, put the bolts in that thing, and bolt the whole car back together and take it out for its first drive. So I'm pretty pumped that we are getting very close. That is it for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to head on over to shopwatchderog.com for cool shirts, not like this. And please like, share, subscribe, do whatever you want to do. And I will talk to you next time. 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