Wiring Kits

[pflaming]

I noticed that EZWIRING's kits are UNIVERSAL kits. Are most that way? Does anyone make a harness that is speicific to say a 1953 Plymouth car?

[Plymouthy Adams]

yes but they are for deep pockets..

[Frank Elder]

You have YNZ right there in cali......around $600 if you still have a braided harness. I was very satisfied with it, but if I could have a "do over" I would have bought the correct wire and loomed it myself.

[Don Jordan]

Rhode Island Wiring - I've done two cars and I love them. They send a harness for one area and a detailed schematic to go with it. Even I was able to do it. I had a web site but can't find it now.

It's the old type of cloth wiring - all color coded. I felt it was worth the price.

check them out.

[RobertKB]

I have used YnZ twice and very satisfied. Pricey but you get what you pay for.

[martybose]

I used Rhode Island, and they worked with me to modify it significantly. I had relays with larger wire for the headlights, deleted the voltage regulator wiring because of my one-wire alternator, added turn signal wiring, and much more. Highly recommended!

Marty

[Mark Haymond]

I used YnZ for my 50 Plymouth. Very pricy but the best thing about it was they used the same special right angle lug connectors, old style bullet connectors, and heat soldered crimp connections which lets everything hook right up to stock parts. Color correct wires. After ten years I have had no electrical problems.

[falconvan]

You have YNZ right there in cali......around $600 if you still have a braided harness. I was very satisfied with it, but if I could have a "do over" I would have bought the correct wire and loomed it myself.

I'd have to agree with Frankie, as far as auto wiring goes these cars are very basic. Buy a few spools, some connectors, and sit down with a diagram. You could probably knock the whole thing out for under $100. Here's a diagram for a 50 and a 51; probably pretty close.

[pflaming]

If I had not wired my B2B truck that diagram would intimidate me. I am carefully taking the harness apart, very carefully. When I discected a frog in biology, I cut it open and found what the assignment called for. Then I noticed another student's work. I BUTCHERED mine, he very carefully disected his. He became a surgeon.

Once fully out, I will get those spools of wire and remove, duplicate, and replace one wire at a time until I have a new harness. I am color coding as I remove. I shoot a little paint into the lid, then paint with a painters brush. Works great, dries fast, should help down the road.

Happy New Year to all!

[Plymouthy Adams]

I have yet to read of a dissected frog ever being "reassembled" and returned the the pond..

a wiring harness is nothing more than individual circuits grouped together along a common path

[Scruffy49]

My wife bought me an EZ kit for mine. Now to decide which truck it is going in, since both need full rewires. Both window regulators re stripped out in my 49, so the later kits that support power windows were important to me (universal flat glass kits). And the modern heater will be easier to wire with the modern kit (so will the radio, A/C, better lighting, power wipers instead of vacuum)...

I started rewiring my 49 the one wire at a time method. And found out that every light socket is pretty much junk. Grandpa definitely used his old truck up before he parked it in 1974.

[pflaming]

Scruffy: Please post a few pics on how you use that kit. Maybe if I saw one stretched out my interest would pick up. On this convertible there are some four or five subsets as Tim Adams pointed out. It had some interesting options including a radio antenea that raised and lowered electrically. On this vehical with these sub sets, I don't see how a universal kit would fit .

So true on old vehical wires: Everything is brittle.

Edited December 26, 2012 by pflaming

[Scruffy49]

My kit is still in the box, packed away in the cab of the 49. Haven't had a chance to install it yet. The harness has 3 looms coming out of the fuse box. Cabin/dash, front clip, rear end. You can order them with circuits to run power tops, they come with a power antenna wire (so do most modern stereos, so do antenna kits). Depending on what harness you buy, some are designed for later additional circuits to be added as needed.

Rewiring a 30s to early 60s is easy. Even if you replace just one wire at a time. The entire rear end of my 69 is run off 4 wire boat trailer type with extra ground circuits to the individual light buckets from the battery. I added same color marker light wires on all 4 corners, truck came with round reflectors, I wanted actual marker lights.

I rewired a former neighbor lady's 54 Chevy in under 2 hours with a universal kit and a 12v alternator instead of a generator. Everything worked better than factory new.

Good enough for me. My trucks aren't going back to stone stock because I need them to work. Hard. I live on a pecan/produce farm.

[dezeldoc]

Paul, those kits are a snap to install, very easy and come with instructions.

[oldodge41]

I made my own for my '41. Not period correct. All black THHN wrapped with friction tape. A couple pics of the harness and a couple of the type drawings I created to use for future troubleshooting along with a wire schedule.

41 Dodge New Wire Schedule.pdf

[pflaming]

Tim, read Frankenstein! We are back in CA, now in the bay area, home today. I bought a complete door, hinges, latches, vent window, glass, regulator, ready to sand and paint. I found three all about the same price, not cheap.

Happy new year to all.

[Plymouthy Adams]

I have my own Frankenstein putting my bz cp together..writing that book now, one chapter at a time