Boneyard Harnesses (was Bosch/Buick crossbreed)

[Teller.John at orbital.com]

Try going to a U-Pull-It sort of junk yard.  The ones any where near here
(D.C. suburbs) are all pretty well organized and insured and thus do not
allow cretins such as I onto their lots.  As you get further from
metropolitan areas, and are willing to do the wrenching yourself, you can
pull just about anything you want.

The problem with harnesses is that the goons (employed there or otherwise)
that usually pull stuff out of the wrecks tend to cut connectors off
instead of unplugging them.  You have to find a real popular car that the
junk yard has lots of, or get there when the wreck is fresh to get that
sort of stuff intact...  Furthermore, harnesses are usually tied in tightly
to the chassis and snake around too many things in order to be quickly
(read cheaply) removed from the carcass.  I doubt you would pay what it
would cost to have a yard goon to pull one...





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Around here, for example, *no* yard will sell a wiring harness.  Not
even just before they feed the car to the crusher.  Why?  Who the hell
knows, but none of them will budge.