Fred Menna
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Who makes the best harness? Ease of installation?
Who makes the best harness? Ease of installation?
How do you do the restoration of the harness. I'm at the stage of making a decision of purchase or restoring mine.If you can get a FSM (yours is available free somewhere online) you can do a lot of restoration to a factory harness for little money and it's not difficult. Mine worked out well, and since mine was a 74, I removed the seatbelt interlock crap to simplify it a little.
Cley
Thanks. My car is completely disassembled. Hope to paint the engine compartment and reinstall the engine soonUnwrap the whole thing and follow through wire by wire replace any bad wires or splices. Redo any bad connectors in the plugs. Get some Packard 56 connectors (I got mine off E-bay) and just make it like new again. Learn how to solder and splice on You Tube. Most important thing you can do is remove it all. Don't try and do it in the car. I made a scroll out of all the wiring drawings in the FSM to make it easier to follow.
Cley
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Personally, I wouldn't put 45 year old wiring back in, especially if the car is completely disassembled. You have the space to freely run the wiring. Just my perspective.Thanks. My car is completely disassembled. Hope to paint the engine compartment and reinstall the engine soon
Excellent answer!! 2nd only to M&H from Year One (and theirs may take a little "nudging" despite claims of "exact repacment" M & H tech support is great, but you have to buy the year one harness first.
Ma Mopar didn't make that easy! The GOOD news is that those plugs were the same for many years. Not that hard to reconstruct from salvaged 12" (suggestion) wire ends.The one thing I’m upset with with this Ron Francis wiring is they don’t have a simple plug for the original gauge cluster
Excellent answer!! 2nd only to M&H from Year One (and theirs may take a little "nudging" despite claims of "exact repacment" M & H tech support is great, but you have to buy the year one harness first.