Need an Engine Wire Harness

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Yup.

The tears have now started to flow, LOL.

The "new" harness has the 18 wires that go to the MAF, AC limit switches, and through to the firewall just cut off. "Great", I think, "I can just slap an 8-pin and a 12-pin Deutsch on there and connect new to old", i tell myself...

Ha effing ha.

Among the 18 wires, although the same 18 colors exist on both sides, each side has FOUR pink wires, 3 tan-ish wires, 2 purple, and 2 black/white wires, all identical shades and gauges.

I have no clue which of the same color wires should go to each other, and the schematics in the Haynes manual are useless without knowing what every circuit is. Can't find anything online either .

Anyone have any expertise or advise to climb THIS hurdle?
it was fair warning, done a few re-wiring jobs before enough to know it's not as easy at it looks.
if you know what the pin outs are on the plug, you can use a wire tester/toner to trace a pin to the wires that are cut, a meter will work but I like the testers better
 
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Boy am I glad ya'll talked me off the cliff of stupidity, LOL.

I don't have my chicken scratch schematics in front of me, but from memory, the pinks were power feeds for the MAF, B2S1 and B2S2 O2 sensors, and one unknown circuit that I convinced myself to accept process of elimination for after 2 hours of zero success finding it on the schematics. Purples and 2 tans were high and low refs for the B2 O2 sensors, with the other tan being low ref for the MAF... which, for those keeping score, confirms the loom ran along the firewall, not through it, AND that the salvage yard wasn't very far off in their claims of condition... they just excluded the MAF in the removed sections.

Then, as if my stupidity in all of this wasn't enough of a stain on the 38 working hours this ordeal consumed, once I finally got her all together and fired up, I spent another 2 hours determining one of Amazon coil pack harnesses I bought NEW was pinned out incorrectly on the 7-pin connector - which was a blast to fix :). That having restored fire on bank 2, I then discovered one of the 8 brand new coils I bought at Autozone - at $400 for the set - was bad out of the box ( on cylinder 3, just in case you had the same thought I did that the bad pinout may have caused it, LOL).

But holy fooks, after all that, she's alive! Mind you, I'm pretty much dead, but hey...

Still got a couple gremlins, with a B2S2 heater fault code this morning and both banks too rich, but even with those faults, she runs WAY better.

HUGE thanks to all ya'll! Literally could not have done it without your help!
 

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