A quick study of the wiring diagram indicated that I needed to install 3 fuses on battery hot. One to power the Technocarb ECM, one to power the Fuel Gauge Interface Module and one to power the CNG regulator. Also needed were 2 grounds in different locations. This was required for redundancy. |
I started out by trying to crimp some eyelets onto the end some wires, however I did not like the way the crimp looked and seamed flimsy.
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Here I striped away the plastic insulator and removed a round inner sleeve. The eyelet was left with small tabs that could be rolled over the wire. A little solder and shrink tubing and our hot wires are done. |
This is a shot of the fuse box. It has a fantastic battery hot bus bar that allowed me to bolt down all the hot wires. This is as good as it gets for a solid connection. |
Here is a shot of one of two ground wires. I used the same eyelet technique on the ground as I did on the hot wires. |
Between the fuse box and battery there is an existing ground boss located on the fender well. |
Here the connection is made. Notice the large ground wire under my added ground. This wire goes to a large central ground buss. |
I found this existing ground on the fire wall. It is the same configuration as the fender ground. |
I attached my second redundant ground here. It also has a direct ground wire running to the central ground bus. |
So far I have been using a pencil iron to solder my connections and it struggled as you can see here. |
So the solution was to pull out the big gun to handle heavy wire connections. |
Back to the job at hand. Here I am connecting power and ground feeders to the components located forward. |
The main harness has connections to power on an HPL (High Pressure Lockoff). I have two of them, one for each CNG tank. However I have no idea what the amperage draw of two HPL's would be. So I set up my trusty DC power supply and dug out a spare Cavalier HPL. |
I set up a series circuit with my multi-meter set to amps. It ends up the HPL only draws a little over half an amp. So the Technocarb ECM should have no problem powering 2 HPL's. With that I finished the wiring the HPL's into the main harness. |