swap wiring questions, with pics, did my luck just get even worse? Options

[brianforster]

ok guys here are some pics and some questions


first off what is this? what does it do? and what should i do about the connections that have been torn


heres another pic of it



secondly here is a picture of my wiring harness, butt connectors.. feh.. wish i noticed them sooner.



what are all of the wires running off of that? the ones that dont go into plugs, what do i do with them?
(one is teal and is labeled fan relay, one is green/yellow and labeled ac switch, one is brown and labeled stop lamp (i think thats in that area, ill go check again in a second)

more pics of harness





thanks guys, i hope i dont have bad new coming, i think as lagos said i might set my car on fire and walk away

[Dr_Tweak]

Oh boy.

Okay, #1, if you're going to be soldering be sure you're doing it right, you need a good iron, flux paste, and the right kind of solder. Otherwise your connections will be crappy and give you more trouble (I've repaired many harnesses with "soldered" connections that were just scarey).

Resistor pack, there's one wire that carries power TO it, and four wires that carry power back. The one wire that has power going to it is the larger of the four on the harness (normally they are black with an orange stripe) and that wire goes to the one on the resistor pack that is a different color than the rest. I think the white one (and the rest are black). The order of the other four doesn't matter.

The fan relay wire wasn't hooked up, that's pretty common for people to do. Your fan will run all the time with that configuration. (That wire comes from the fusebox plug, right?) Or, buy a fan temp switch from an ST and install that on your 3SGTE, and hook that wire up.

The other two wires don't worry about, at least for now.

-Doc