Installing a painless wiring system
i paid about 350.00 for my RF harness on sale about 100.00 or 150.00 marked off from Yogis's. I did a ton of research before i bought mine and i seem to recall that painless is more expensive. I bought mine about 2 years ago....prices might have gone up since then too. No experience here with painless specifically so definately check out the thread someone posted above. My kit had connections on the fuse box for various things to be powered which most i haven't used but the key is testing each of those connections on the box with a test light in different key positions to see when you are getting power to that circuit and if it matches what you need for that accessory. RF had great instructions but called tech once and they helped me. I did get mopar connectors for distributor and ecu with the kit..didn't use them since i'm using msd 6al. i had plenty of extra wire from the kit to make my wiper harness which was easy. You might need to do the same on some things like the courtesy light you mentioned....i'm betting so on that one for most any kit. This is just my opinion...i've seen guys rewire an entire car leaving many old components in place especially the fuse box. I don't understand it....if you are doing all the work why not go all new? Eliminate the weak links. Sure you could probably go out and source seperate components from different sources and save some...but if you buy the painless from this guy and it comes with it's own wiring diagram to keep in your records to help troubleshoot later....that's money well spent imo. Otherwise you would need to draw your own as you go. It could be done, but for me the diagram was an important selling point too. i've even heard of guys buying a giant spool of single color wire and rewiring the entire car...can you imagine troubleshooting that one...could be done with testing but i'd rather pay just a little more for a kit with a brand new and updated fuse box and good diagram. As you probably already know with these old mopars; if you get the electrical updated and correct that's a huge chunk of potential problems you've eliminated. my advice is do your research on the painless and pricing...check out ron francis too if you have time to compare. but overall i think you are thinking right...."cheap insurance". IMO.