Engine Electrical Plugs
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This makes the most sense, but looking at the right picture (of post 7), the wiring to the wiring connector on the donor vehicle has already been destroyed, you can see all of the wires are cut. I looked up and down for you on the internet and could not find an adaptor of that sort. I found other threads of other websites that had similar situations (your terminology is fine -- wiring harness or connectors) I saw quite a few adaptors but nothing that would help you. Trying to connect that pin for pin would be excessive, even if you had pin definitions. Find another donor vehicle with complete wiring and matching computer to go with it, or find another 91, which is easiest.
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This makes the most sense, but looking at the right picture (of post 7), the wiring to the wiring connector on the donor vehicle has already been destroyed, you can see all of the wires are cut. I looked up and down for you on the internet and could not find an adaptor of that sort. I found other threads of other websites that had similar situations (your terminology is fine -- wiring harness or connectors) I saw quite a few adaptors but nothing that would help you. Trying to connect that pin for pin would be excessive, even if you had pin definitions. Find another donor vehicle with complete wiring and matching computer to go with it, or find another 91, which is easiest.
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I see now there is no other way and i am going to replace the distributor...we got the engine from a junk yard and we needed to clean the engine up a little replace the valve cover gasket and the rod cover gasket,etc. Thats why i have all the time in the world really...were doing crops right now so we dont have time to work on an old truck... But the junk yard said they would trade us straight up with a distributor with the flat plug for the old round one...we talked to him last night about it so thats why i didn't have any solutions yet cause we were waiting to talk to the junk yard
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If by "engine you pulled out" you mean the old 91 hes replacing, he mentions in post #5 that the old distributor is broken.
Otherwise if you are referring to the engine he pulled out of junkyard, the 92, it came with the distributor and harness, but the female connector at the end of harness won't work on his 91 body, because the 91 still has the origional male harness and computer. It appears that in the second photo of post #7 the male half of the connector on the 92 donor body has been cut from the wiring connecting to the ECU.
It kinda sounds like the 92 engine is already in the 91 body (he mentioned all of the other wiring for the rest of engine swap worked, except the distributor), but hes now got a deal with junkyard to swap back just the 92 distributor for a 91 version that he needs.