All the front wiring had to come out anyway to add the washer pump wire in, which was inexplicably in the engine spur (separate to the forward loom). Also there is no earth provision in the loom for the washer pump and up above the passengers feet where the washer bottle will be, there isn't any chassis nearby to earth on to so the earth goes back into the loom and pops out the proper t-piece spur going to the fan relay. It then joins up with the fan earth to an earth point near the front near side suspension mount point. I realise that I could have wired all the earths into the loom and had one massive forward earth point but then considered single point of failure etc, and the fact that I had already drilled a load of holes and left it was it was.
The ring terminal floating on its own is from the temperature sensor, which will eventually join up with the main fan earth and the washer pump earth. Then the good old convoluted plastic tubing over the top. Another change was to put the front loom on connectors. It was straight through until the washer pump debacle and it soon became apparent that to put the nice t-piece in for the fan relay, ALL the front loom would have to come out to put it through the t-piece. Can't be bothered with that so I chopped the loom and put a connector in. Unfortunately there are 11 wires going forward and the largest connector I had was 8-way, so two 6-ways were used. Minor bodge but I can live with it. My made up excuse is redundancy.
The two wires going off on their own are power and earth for the washer pump.
A note on protecting the wires, each crimp termination has heat shrink sleeve over it, then each bundle of wire has a pvc jacket with a further flexible convoluted tube over the top. Self amalgamating tape is copiously used at the end of each bundle was it goes into each connector.
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