Is anybody building OEM style wiring harnesses?

[Doppleganger]

I saved my entire old harness. Was in pretty decent shape but I still went on Rock and picked up most of the connectors anyways.

 

[Raider L]

@lcducote,

Or you can go over to Advance Auto Parts and buy several color and size spools of wire and a bunch of connectors, a soldering gun and replace all the wires yourself. Go on this site to the library and look up you year schematic and go from one wire to the next. When I rebuilt my truck I unwrapped all the wire in the truck of that factory self adhering tape and cleaned every wire from end to end. I had a wiring schematic from my factory maint. manual and took it somewhere and had a copy of it blown up to where I could see everything real well, but it took three pages, in 14"x17". Took them home, laid them out, lined up all the lines and taped the pages together. The size was good and I could do some additional labeling as to what was what.

It worked out real well when I started putting in all my Autometer gauges replacing all the factory gauges. I even got rid of the factory printed circuit. Now I wish I had kept it, iot's worth a bunch of money.

 

[dsteelejr]

I second what @Raider L said. I replaced the wiring myself in my 1980 K25. It was a learning experience with frustrating moments, but the knowledge and experience I gained was invaluable and I wouldn’t buy harness next time either. I’d do it myself again. You can buy packs of 11 color, 100 foot spools of automotive wire from Amazon at a reasonable price, too. For hard to find two color striped wire http://wiringharness.com/ sells spools of it so you can keep the wires the factory colors. You can get a new fuse block for $20 or so on Amazon. Only thing that’s hard to find is the bulkhead connector. You can reuse your old if it’s in good shape. The premade harnesses come with them, but those turkeys won’t sell the bulkhead connector separately. I had to hunt down and buy the individual parts to it in bulk and put it together. I have a bunch of left over brand new bulk head connectors for ‘76 - ‘86 I don’t need. I’ll sell one to anyone needs one.