First time the car's been in the air for a thorough inspection since I got it back from the shop for RMS and oil pan gasket replacement... I like to check everything out every once in a while...

My findings are a bit disturbing.

It appears that something's missing. One vacant bolt hole and one bolt in place but no part for it to hold.

Take a look at the photos. Can anyone tell me what's supposed to be here?

I honestly don't recall if anything is actually supposed be mounted at the location of the open hole. The stray bolt, on the other hand, has a washer and a lock washer on it so that tells me something's supposed to be there.

 

Theres suppose to be a bracket there but it's not needed.

 

looks like a bracket was there where that grey clip held into

 

There's a sheetmetal guard to keep the wiring harness close to the block and away from the axle. If you can't find it or get it, I'd make sure your wiring's nice and secured some other way, IIRC it's pretty close to the axle even with the guard on it. And it looks like yours MAY even be rubbing up against the axle.

 

zip ties FTW

 

yep... just spent the better part of 2 hours routing and zip tying the crap out this stuff.

every single friggin tie-down was broken and rendered absolutely useless.

i'm on my way to search through the FSM and my haynes manual to see if i can find a picture and part # for the missing bracket, but if anyone has a photo of it i'd be most appreciative... this missing stuff just bugs the he11 out of me.