Wiring Harness journal

[Juggernaut]

Thanks a bunch! You need anything at all just ask, I owe you one!

 

[Dleslie212]

@Juggernaut - here are a few more pics. The wiring was plugged into the switch that's held on with the white zip ties. I never did find anywhere the vac line was attached to.

 

[Dleslie212]

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[Dleslie212]

Last for today

 

[Dleslie212]

The cab harness has been removed for the most part. I left the harness for the power windows and locks intact, along with the wiring that ran through the dash and over to the AC/heat

I'm ready to start with the new wiring here in the next few days

 

[Randy and Easton]

…. Well, I thought ours was bad….. that is a total mess…. We were scared to do a complete rewire a year ago, thinking we did not have the talent. What we are seeing is we could have just didn’t. Now that its all cleaned up we are going to let sleeping dogs… well, just sleep until they wake up and bite us…

Randy and E

 

[Randy and Easton]

We did buy the American Autowire headlight relay harness. Hope do do that install next week when it warms up.

 

[Dleslie212]

Let me know how that works for you. I was thinking of buying Painless' version of that

 

[Dleslie212]

…. Well, I thought ours was bad….. that is a total mess…. We were scared to do a complete rewire a year ago, thinking we did not have the talent. What we are seeing is we could have just didn’t. Now that its all cleaned up we are going to let sleeping dogs… well, just sleep until they wake up and bite us…

Randy and E

By the way, if I can do this, anyone else can. I'm the least mechanically or electrically smart person you'll ever meet. I just YouTube everything

 

[Randy and Easton]

And be careful with that… not always correct as we found out on several things. We decided we will always “trust but verify”. Easton decided he wants to do his own you tube video when we do his western chassis’s 2/4 drop hoping our mistakes on video may help others. We actually should have done a video on the Vintage Air install because it was hard but we did it and it works great.

 

[Dleslie212]

Cam anyone tell me what this is? It was mounted on top of my steering column, and had a rod going into it as well

 

[Dleslie212]

I realize now this is an ignition switch

 

[Dleslie212]

I'm a little bit stuck. The instruction manual says to refer to Page 124 to determine which connector to use, but I don't see anywhere on that page that states which one is supposed to be used

 

[Dleslie212]

Well I got that one figured out as well. I ended up googling "turn signal switch" and finding a picture, locating that in my truck, and then taking all the connectors from my Painless kit to figure out which one would work on the switch in the truck. Then locating the old connector on the old harness and cut it off to match the wires. Side not, I think it's pretty neat that Painless used the same colors on their harness as well. Up next - wiper motor connector stat tuned