But were the connectors cut and wires hardwired to something else? Because what you have described is pretty temporary and just needs to be made solid.
Here is some wiring the SAME GUY did for a FINISHED project. Everything labeled and grouped together, and even most of the wires under the loom are labeled as well. This was from a 2005 vehicle with all sorts of fun stuff like drive-by-wire, injection pumps, evap pumps, cruise control built into ECU, and a 5 speed auto. Hacked no, finished yes.
First temporary like this
then after everything has been verified working, SOLID solder joints are made with DOUBLE shrink tube on EVERY connection loomed up.
A HACK job would be if the factory wiring was all HACKED up, which in your case it is not, instead a jumper harness like the one pictured above was created. The one on your 4runner was NEVER finished.
You purchased a vehicle that was NOT completed, and you were made VERY aware of that, if you wanted a finished vehicle, you should have had more money in your bank account.
Glad to see that you are going through and FINISHING everything though, it does look really nice.
If you want to see a hack job, I can take some pictures of this LS6 RX7 wiring that was supposidly "FINISHED" Factory connectors were cut off and there is no way to troubleshoot. At least in your case, just look at the pinouts and you are good to go.
