engine and drivetrain Tips on removal of wiring harness?

[EscapeArtist]

I am in the last stages of preparing my car to go up on the rotissiere for extensive sheet metal repairs - floors, A pillars, inner fender supports, inner and outer rockers, both lower rear quarter panels, trunk floor, etc. - this is what us guys in New England have to do to entertain ourselves during the long winters - and one of the last tasks is to completely remove the wiring harness. So far I have pulled everything out of the trunk up under the pedal box, at the instruments and relays under the dash are hanging there and the engine wiring is bagged in front of the firewall. It appears to me that the best approach is to pull everything from the engine compartment into the passenger compartment and then the whole harness is free. I would appreciate hearing from those who having actually removed the entire harness for the method you have used.

[Stefan_m2002tii]

The harness is actually a two piece, one pulls into passenger side the other into enginebay.

Disconect everything from the fuse box, take a note/picture how it will be connected, then there are 2 little gray/black plugs under dashbord that also must be disconected.

[EscapeArtist]

Thanks for the tip. I take many digital pictures of each connection and then draw a very simple diagram of the connectors and each wire as connected - makes things so much simplier when I will be reinstalling the parts a couple of years from now.