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Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod?

Posted By: Cab_Burge

Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/05/22 06:36 AM

I'm at the point that I need to buy a wiring harness for it, 1940 Ford Tudor with nothing original inside and stock nice sheet metal on the body.
I want run electric windows, electric door locks, air conditioning, radio with some sort of recorded music player, nothing exotic as far as watts and multiple speakers, front and rear speakers is what I'm planning on now. cruise control, turn signals with standard head and taillights with turn signals.
I've look at Summit but no were else so far.
Who do you recommend and like help.
I recently saw a comment on a Painless wiring harness being too short on a lot of the wires, not sure if it was universal kit or any other details on it though confused
I wire two drag race cars for a local a drag racer up here years back and use Painless kits on both with no real issues that I'm remembering now help
Thanks in advance up
Posted By: srt

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/07/22 03:22 AM

American Autowire
Posted By: bobby66

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/07/22 12:39 PM



Maybe look at the Ron Francis stuff, too.
Posted By: John_Kunkel

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/07/22 04:12 PM

When making a choice, you might want to consider whether the wires at the fuse box are permanently attached or if the fuse box has screw terminals...I prefer screw terminals.
Posted By: moparx

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/07/22 07:48 PM

screw terminals at the fuse box preferred here as well.
beer
Posted By: Cab_Burge

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/07/22 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by moparx
screw terminals at the fuse box preferred here as well.
beer
I agree, thanks to both of you up bow up
I hadn't thought of that so this is a big help to avoid having to deal with not having the choice to put which wire on which terminals now and in the up future
Posted By: Old Ray

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/09/22 12:39 AM

Nope, no store bought stuff, hand wire it from scratch. Should only set the project back by a year. mad

My wiring panel for my next project.

[Linked Image]
Posted By: moparx

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/09/22 03:59 PM

nice work there, Ray ! up bow
beer
Posted By: poorboy

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/10/22 02:01 AM

That would certainly be way past anything I could do. I don't have enough years left to do anything like that, a complete wiring system would be a requirement for me.

Which wiring kits use the screw on terminals at the fuse block?
Posted By: 1969RR

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/11/22 04:11 PM

I agree with the American Autowire suggestion. I just rewired my '70 Challenger using their kit. Very straight forward, easy to follow wiring diagrams, worked out great. I know they offer universal kits you could use. Years ago I used a Painless kit on a '70 Charger. Definitely NOT Painless! I also have built systems from scratch using a HayWire (if I remember correctly) kit.
Posted By: moparx

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/11/22 05:23 PM

whatever one decides to do, use a kit or start from scratch, make sure to sketch out a diagram of the circuits in the system.
a simple pencil drawing will do. unless, of course, you are an engineer or architect having lots of colored pencils and a compass and straight edge. biggrin
all kidding aside, a schematic of the system will be of great value if any trouble[s] arise in the future.
beer
Posted By: 57Plymouth

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/12/22 11:04 AM

I've wired 4 cars from scratch with EZ Wire harnesses. The first one took some time as it was the first time I'd wired a car from scratch. The second one took a day. The 4th one took less than a full day, and I had to integrate a harness for an LS swap as well.

If you use an EZ Wire harness, take a few hours to read the manual completely and trace out and understand the schematic. Once you have your head around it the install is a breeze. The toughest thing for me to get my head around is always the dome lights for some reason.
Posted By: 57Plymouth

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/12/22 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Old Ray
Nope, no store bought stuff, hand wire it from scratch. Should only set the project back by a year. mad

My wiring panel for my next project.

[Linked Image]


One of your relays is not powering up. One flasher for turn signals and one for hazzard?
Posted By: Old Ray

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/12/22 01:26 PM


[/quote] One of your relays is not powering up. One flasher for turn signals and one for hazard? [/quote]

Is that one question or two ? grin The not powered relay is because of the pilot error at the time on behalf of this idiot. Yes, there is one flasher for turn and one for hazards.

This the back side of the panel, I think you can see why I was having trouble for the PHOTO SHOOT.

Attached picture 1956 ford f100 wire panel 2.jpg
Posted By: Old Ray

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/12/22 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by 57Plymouth
The toughest thing for me to get my head around is always the dome lights for some reason.


Me too, I think because they usually are ground sided switched as the door jam switch only needs one wire confused
Posted By: 57Plymouth

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/14/22 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by Old Ray

One of your relays is not powering up. One flasher for turn signals and one for hazard? [/quote]

Is that one question or two ? grin The not powered relay is because of the pilot error at the time on behalf of this idiot. Yes, there is one flasher for turn and one for hazards.

This the back side of the panel, I think you can see why I was having trouble for the PHOTO SHOOT.


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That looks like a good time.
Posted By: poorboy

Re: Wiring harness brands, who to use for street rod? - 09/15/22 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by Old Ray

One of your relays is not powering up. One flasher for turn signals and one for hazard? [/quote]

Is that one question or two ? grin The not powered relay is because of the pilot error at the time on behalf of this idiot. Yes, there is one flasher for turn and one for hazards.

This the back side of the panel, I think you can see why I was having trouble for the PHOTO SHOOT.


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Now, that looks more like my wiring, except all of my stuff looks like that! I think it looks like your missing about 20 wires. grin

I am curious as to why you have all those wires connected to the blue wire through the yellow connecter when you have all those available screw in stripes available? Wouldn't it be better to have the blue wire hooked to one of the screws on stripe with a couple jumper wires on the hot side, then pair up the fed wires through 2 or 3 terminals?
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