diff --git a/cime_config/SystemTests/funitctsm.py b/cime_config/SystemTests/funitctsm.py
index 180679a813..8634a74c2f 100644
--- a/cime_config/SystemTests/funitctsm.py
+++ b/cime_config/SystemTests/funitctsm.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 import os
 from CIME.SystemTests.funit import FUNIT
 from CIME.XML.standard_module_setup import *
-from CIME.utils import append_testlog, get_cime_root
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -23,28 +22,3 @@ def __init__(self, case):
     def get_test_spec_dir(self):
         lnd_root = self._case.get_value("COMP_ROOT_DIR_LND")
         return os.path.join(lnd_root, "src")
-
-    # TODO(wjs, 2018-10-28) For now, we're overriding run_phase with a slightly modified
-    # version that has a fix for the path to the unit_test_tool. Once we can point to an
-    # updated cime that has this fix in place, we should remove run_phase, relying on
-    # FUNIT's run_phase. At that point, we should also remove the import of append_testlog
-    # and get_cime_root, above.
-    def run_phase(self):
-
-        rundir   = self._case.get_value("RUNDIR")
-        exeroot  = self._case.get_value("EXEROOT")
-        mach     = self._case.get_value("MACH")
-
-        log = os.path.join(rundir, "funit.log")
-        if os.path.exists(log):
-            os.remove(log)
-
-        test_spec_dir = self.get_test_spec_dir()
-        unit_test_tool = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(get_cime_root(),"scripts","fortran_unit_testing","run_tests.py"))
-        args = "--build-dir {} --test-spec-dir {} --machine {}".format(exeroot, test_spec_dir, mach)
-        stat = run_cmd("{} {} >& funit.log".format(unit_test_tool, args), from_dir=rundir)[0]
-
-        append_testlog(open(os.path.join(rundir, "funit.log"), "r").read())
-
-        expect(stat == 0, "RUN FAIL for FUNIT")
-