Who Supplies the Best Engine Wire Harnesses?

I've had a couple from evans with no issues

me too

There seem to be a lot of folks complaining about bad connections,especially at the bulkhead, if you google Bill Evans wiring.

I bought my harness a year ago and had issues almost immediately with the connectors pulling out of the plastic plugs at the ballast...no problem, there...I just removed the plugs and used the metal connectors only. I also found that the wires at the coil were a tad too short, but I made it work OK.

But then i had issues where the car would shut down for no reason and I found two bad connections at the bulkhead....wires just pulled out...I soldered those in and sent an email to them, at which point they said send the harness back so they could go over it....But I figure I found my issue and decided to move on...didnt want to have the car dead in the water.

Well, now I am having the same issue again this season....contacted them and they told me to send it back for them to examine. On one hand, good support as far as looking at it a year later...on the other hand, have had issues from day one.

So for me the jury is out.

I purchased a new harness to avoid the issue of possible harness problems......so not real happy.

No idea how long it will take to get my harness back....but figured I best have the, go over the harness before looking for issues elsewhere and they agreed.

I sent it back via next day air after being told I shouldnt wait because they will be kneee deep in shows soon....then found out today that the main guy is out of town...so I wasted next day air fees.

Still appears that year one is the way to go. I have heard a few good things about evans harnesses but probably more bad than good. My main concern is that I want a harness as original, i.e. the distributor vac advance and the idle solenoid, I know at carlisle last summer bill told me that his harness was not equipped for the idle solenoid so I will try a year one harness. Thanks again.

that's it! idle solenoid. man i've been scratching my head at this wondering where it was / am i missing something.


from the sounds of it, I WAS MISSING something.

Well talk about fast shipping!! I received my harness today and as everyone said it looks super. Although I do believe there is something missing. My car is a four speed car with a 383 and a holley carb. The manual trans cars have an idle solenoid with two leads that routed off of the rear of the carb, they actually attach to one of the vac. diaphram screws. Well one lead is ignition power to the solenoid and the other is for distributor vac. advance ground when the throttle is closed. Well this harness has no connection for either. According to the wiring diagram in the service manual this is a manual trans only application. Auto trans have no idle solenoid and the wire for the distributor ground comes right off of the curb idle screw located on the front of the carb. This harness is PERFECT for the auto trans setup but I am certainly missing something for the four speed setup. Can anyone help?? Possibly a picture of an original setup? I can make it work but I want it to appear proper as this is a numbers matching car. My research shows that E and B body applications are the same. Thanks

I would suggest you call Tom at M&H and discuss this with him, if the harness is incorrect he will make it right. Do not talk to anyone except Tom. If it needs to be reworked I am sure he will handle shipping both ways.

Bill just made two for me - one was special sized to go from a 440 to a 1953 Hudson body, the other a standard 70 big block , both nice items , there was no noticable difference between Bills and the year Ones I got.

We, thought I would update my situation.

Lets just say that communication isnt one of Bill Evans' strongpoints.

He had urged me to send the harness to him as soon as possible "so it doesnt have to sit" due to shows he attends. Fair enough.

So, like I said, I overnighted it, only for him not to touch it until like 5 days later (he was out of town)....He FINALLY emails me to tell me he found nothing wrong. I asked him if he noticed/double checked the two bad connections I had soldered myself and also if I would have the harness back for this past weekend.

No response at all.

Now, he is in Erie, and I am in the Pittsburgh area....even regular mail would have gotten it to me on Saturday had he sent it out the day he emailed me. So I figured I would just wait and hope I got it on saturday so I could install today.

Well, here it is Sunday night and no trace of my harness nor any emails to tell me the deal.

My car and all work on it is dead in the water.

Truth be told, after reading much of what I have read, i am losing faith about his harness....the positive battery cable I bought from him is too short to route correctly and the cable is pulling from the clamp I think....those issues plus all the problems with the harness and I am wondering if I shouldn't just bite the bullet and break out my wallet and buy another harness...this time, from M&H. And either keep the one I bought from him as a backup or sell it to someone.

One thing is for sure -- I feel very disrespected to have gotten absolutely NO response back from him since I emailed 4 days ago. Very poor customer relations.

I guess he figures he is doing me a favor by looking at it....Well, the way I see it, I have had two boughts of problematic connections with HIS product, each time fixing myself....and now a new situation so of course I want the harness gone over....Its a brand new harness and shouldnt be the SOURCE of problems...I paid $100 for a bunch of wires and connectors to AVOID harness issues!!!!!!

Yet here I am.

And Mom and pop shop or not, if you put yourself out there on the web with an email address as offering a product you should be quick to reply to customers via email! I have dealt with small shops before and had great results. CAP auto for instance? AWESOME! The guy stayed on the phone with me for a good 30 minutes discussin gall sorts of front end geometry stuff...AWESOME customer service.

And its just the opposite here.

I am so ticked right now at this guy I could spit.

USE CODE: APRIL Good today only.

I believe Code: Moparts15 is still good.

well i just found two more bad crimps on my wiper harness. man this pisses me off.

I bought a Year One engine/headlight harness about 10 years back. It was perfect in every way and has worked flawlessly. Great product. Exactly like original in every respect. Plug it in and forget about it.

I ordered a trans and an AC harness from Evans because Year One did not offer them. Trans harness had one wire the wrong color but it did fit. The AC harness has the wrong guage wire and one wire was way too long. Sent Evans an email and offered to send in my originals so he could duplicate them. All he said was "send them back for a refund". I even offered to pay extra and pay shipping both ways but he kept responding "send them back for a refund". He has no interest in making customers happy. I will never buy from them again.