Well, the wife took off Saturday morning for the annual Women's Cookie Baking Day and all my buddies were tied up with family xmas stuff, so what could I do to occupy my time? Sit on the couch and binge-watch some tv shows? Sure, but I feel guilty doing that during the daylight hours - especially when it's a heat wave outside and pushing 32F!
My only other option? WORK ON THE CAR! *eek!*
So I fired up the garage furnace and started digging thru boxes marked "Sterling Parts" that have been ignored for the last 3.5 years and two household moves. I think I found most everything except some wiring pigtails (which I may or may not have bought years ago...and therefore would be unable to be found) and the wiper motor (which may or may not have been a useless hunk of rust years ago...and therefore tossed).
Eventually I decided to stop wasting time looking for those parts, buy replacements, and see what I could actually get done in a day. Turns out: not much. Why? Ambition...or a severe lack of it. A lot of that can be blamed on the Winter Blahs...hard to have ANY ambition when I haven't seen the sun for weeks and it's sleeting outside. But I digress...
After a few productive hours in the heated garage and numerous trips out into the cold, unheated shop for parts, connectors and/or tools, I managed to get most of the wiring harness for the power mirrors and dome light wired, soldered, loomed and taped. I say "most" because without the wiper motor, I can't totally finish the harness. Once I get a new wiper motor (see separate post), I can wrap up the canopy wiring and move it out of the garage to the shop and then have access to the rest of the car (right now the canopy is resting upside down on top of the car body preventing access to the interior).
Sunday was consumed by a bit of last minute Xmas shopping, but I managed to get a few hours out in the garage...but those were mostly spent staring at the car and thinking - I'm an expert in the art of procrastination!