Taking Delivery

[grouch]

Factory service manual wiring diagrams are always too cluttered for me to follow. I like to break things down to subsystems. Then again, my stuff is never as neat as I want it to be.

Have you considered wiring headlight relays in?

[Don P]

Auto electric is black magic  :P.

Those generic Ford fender mount starter solonoids from around the 80's-early '90's era are excellent and cheap relays, they can run anything from a starter, glow plugs, a winch, thumper stereo, or whatever

[grouch]

The standard Bosch type relays sometimes come up in good deals. I got a 5 pack of 40A relays with sockets for $14 when I needed to put a trailer hookup on my Dodge. They were 4 wire sockets but easy to swap the wires to the positions needed.

[Magicman]

Just be sure that they are rated for "continuous duty".

[Ianab]

I just watched a clip on Youtube of some slightly crazy Aussies repowering an old VW beetle with an intercooled turbo Subaru engine. Ended up over 350 hp in a stock looking Beetle.

That wiring loom is nothing   :D They were wiring a custom engine computer into the old VW, with the electronic boost control, variable cam timing, flex fuel sensor, and "boost by gear" where the computer increased the turbo pressure once you got into a higher gear. (Reduces wheel spin in 1st and 2nd).

Totally crazy and impractical car, as it still had VW brakes  But a lot of fun at the drag strip.

[Jeff]

Oh boy.


  

  

 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

   



                                                    ADVIL




Take 2 and call me in the morning.

[grouch]

I'm just gonna leave this laying around here...

3/8 x 100 ft split loom

even walmart has it

[Jeff]

Wiring is starting to come together at least under the hood. Still looks the same in the cab.



 

[grouch]

You can't do that. The red on the wire does not match the red on the firewall. That's just primitive. You'll have to rip it all out and start over.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Looking good......but getting complicated in my book.  :D

[WDH]

Everything is complicated in your book.  It only has a front and back cover, and no pages in between  :D :D :D

[Raider Bill]

Make sure you grommet everything going through metal.

[paul case]

In my family, when doing such endearing work to a vehicle causes it to get a name.

Nellie belle, two ton tony, old blue, bertha and punkin are some that I remember. So has she got a name?

PC

[Jeff]

My Truck is a He, and his name is M.R. Truck.    M.R. stands for Mill Rat.

[loggah]

Jeff, Im sure you will be "REAL" happy when the wiring is done!! ;D  and relieved.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Everything is complicated in your book.  It only has a front and back cover, and no pages in between  :D :D :D

Y'all can kiss my Grits. I can Ware anything if I have lots of pictures and Wang Nuts.
:D

[Jeff]

 

 

[Shotgun]

Jeff is making real head way lights! :D

[grouch]

M.R. Truck ain't any relation to Christine, is he?

[Don P]

My Truck is a He, and his name is M.R. Truck.    M.R. stands for Mill Rat.

Shining  ;D
My folks first car was an old A model with a leaky roof, Dad did a tar and gravel job  and it became "Gravel Gertie".
On the second day after we picked up the motorhome that was to be our travelling log building construction company home, we had an engine fire. We spent 2 days up on blocks in a junkyard in Charlotte pulling wires and playing "watcha reckon that was". There's a special place in my heart for auto electric. It's a mighty small special place  :D

[Jeff]

M.R. Truck ain't any relation to Christine, is he?

Older more mature cousin.

[Jeff]

I think we found the problem Houston! And the solution.



  

 

[grouch]

Your critter processor is clogged? Does this mean you'll have to resort to the old fashioned way of skinning 'em with a knife?

[Peter Drouin]

Then the heater core is full too.