Today was "clean up on aisle 73": While waiting on parts to arrive (dash LEDs) I dug into the extra wires under the dash the PO from before left behind.
One went to a non-op power antenna. The dead power antenna is still in place and given the extra wiring, I think it was PO-installed, not dealer. It was powered off the fuse panel accessory terminal, which went to a switch mounted low on the side of the center stack. From there was about 20' of wadded/bundled up wire *and then* it led to the power antenna itself. That's cleaned up.
The other was powered off the same accessory terminal that led to a switch inside the console box, but that had one wire going into the engine compartment that just dead-ended. No idea what it might have once been hooked up to, but at least now that stray wire is out from under the hood. That's all cleaned up.
Then I reassembled my new dash pad with the newly cleaned and painted metal piece that stretches the width of the car and goes from pad to base of windshield. Here I gotta give a shout-out to Ohio Mustang: I had ordered new dash pad mounting hardware in anticipation of this project a year or so ago, then in the interim, forgot about it. When I did disassemble the dash, I thought I'd set aside all the hardware but when it came time to reassemble the pad -- much later than expected, I wasn't sure if the parts I found were the entire bunch I'd removed earlier and in trying to muddle through all that, came across the hardware pack from Ohio Mustang. Problem solved: all new hardware for reinstalling the dash pad.
I often don't record, organize or photograph some parts and pieces if I expect I'm going to be reinstalling them pronto. My memory is usually good for a few days (lol) This project highlights my folly -- sometimes things out of your control happen and you can't get back to what you were doing and details get forgotten. Photograph *everything*... it's not like you're going to run out of film, right?