Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso View Post
There are a lot of commercially available wiring kits on the market.......some good and some not so good. I've heard good things about Ron Francis' kits and also American Autowire (which I bought for my Son........yet to be installed).

I've always done my own wiring from scratch, but we used a Summit kit that I think is made by Painless for my Son's T bucket. It was NOT painless. All three of us have done a fair amount of wiring (Dan did it professionally on cars and boats for some time) and at times we had to put our heads together to try to figure out what the instructions were saying. In the end we just did it our way, and it worked out.

As for the soldering vs crimp thing, you will get all kinds of opinions, but I crimp. I come out of the marine industry and soldering is a no no on boats as it can create hard spots and brittle wiring. If it is done right I guess it is fine on a car, but good quality crimp terminals are pretty idiot proof IMO.

Another consideration is if your 55 is a stock restoration or a hot rod. If stock you will want the original style harness, but if not stock the sky is the limit. I think as long as you don't go cheap you will be fine with one of the name brand units.

Don
Don....This is for a 36 dodge, not the 55.

The car had a new kit installed. It was just installed incorrectly. The wires are connected to the wrong things even though it states on the wire what to connect it to. I guess I was more or less speaking about how to join/connect the wires correctly.

Past owner, not the guy who actually wired it, said it needs to be rewired, but it comes with a complete 20 circuit wiring harness in the box and that the wiring in the car was new, just not connected to the right things! My first concern is that wires are connected to the proper components and that they are safe. Not necessarily that everything LOOKS beautiful.

You said above, "good quality crimp terminals are pretty idiot proof IMO." Guess I'm asking how to do a good quality crimp terminal.

Here is some of the fun I will have to deal with: