Thread: Looking for a wiring harness for my lights, controls etc for 23 tbucket

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Basically the one that is in the car is homemade now and is a mess. I'd like to replace it with something a little more neat and together with fuse block. I would need something for all my gauges, for my lights, turns, brakes etc. Anything out there similar?

I used one of those hotrod aftermarket Easy wiring looms purchased from a hotrod shop. I got the basic loom as the only extra i am running is the cig.lighter,not that I smoke but use to charge my cellphone. It had indicators,horn,lights etc just the basic for a t bucket.

^cool what is the website or is it a catalog sort of thing?

Check out american auto wire.
http://www.americanautowire.com

Bug

There are a lot of kits out there from companies like Painless, Ron Francis, American Autowire, etc. This is one area where it pays to spend a couple more bucks to get a quality one vs a cheapy. Not only are the components better but the better kits are easier to install.

Personally, I like American Autowire. I have heard the Painless kits as being described as anything BUT painless, and I think the one we bought from Summit (house brand) was made by them because the box and instructions are identical. It was the hardest kit to install, and we have done a lot of car and boat wiring, due to the vague instructions and complicated circuitry at times.

Don

Yea Im defintely no electrician and have never wired a whole car before so the though almost scares me. At the same time i'm going to spend the money and get a good one so I know how everything is done b/c right now certain things dont work and it's like WTF?!

I have the American Auto Wire "Highway 15" in my car. It is a 15 circut system and it came with everything except the gauges. It even comes with the ignition switch.

You almost do not have to go by any diagram. All of the wires have where they go imprented on them. The actual words not just a number. I.E., Front Left Headlight, Left Tail Light, ECT.

Bug

hmm wow thats what I want, i have an igntion switch and all with headlights etc as the car is done. I would like brighter headlights. There is a place here that actually retrofits HIDs into factory headlights im wondering if they could do it or not after all this.

Check out Rebel Wire.
8 circuit around $125

I'm using this one for my T because I have EFI and wanted plenty of circuits, but he also sells smaller ones. the quality is very good on the one I purchased, and the price is excellent. very good value IMHO.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/20-CI...Q5fAccessories

Russ

Originally Posted by 1923tbucket

hmm wow thats what I want, i have an igntion switch and all with headlights etc as the car is done. I would like brighter headlights. There is a place here that actually retrofits HIDs into factory headlights im wondering if they could do it or not after all this.

no need for HID's. just run the lights off of relays, and they will be brighter.. you could get an HID projector retrofit kit for 7" headlights from Speedway, but it's going to set you back $800 IIRC

Try Painless wiring harness, they're good. Try to look at JCWhitney, they sure have a lot to offer. Have bought stuffs there.

Everyone here are making good points about all the top wiring companies. My best suggestion is to check them all out......Ron Francis, American autowire, etc......then see what each offers and figure out what you are going to need.
I don't care for the ones that have an empty fuse block and you have to run the wires and tighten a screw when you plug into the fuse panel. I like the wires already in the panel and you run them to where they go.
This is why you should do your homework.

I wire around 20 odd cars a year and i find the Rebel Wiring kit the best value out there and i've used them all over the years.

As Steve has said, I used my first Rebel 9 + 3 kit on my 27 recently and was happy with the quality overall. It is not the most expensive kit on the market but everything seemed to be done well, each wire was marked with it's destination and the instructions were about 90% easy to figure out. Only thing that had me scratching my head was that they sometimes used a smaller gauge wire on one side than the other, and that was on the side that had the longest run. That seemed backwards, but it seems to work fine.

We also have an American AutoWire kit that Dan will be using in his rpu, and it does have some addtional features, like the ability to unplug wires right at the fuse panel, which sometimes simplifies running the wires (you can do them one at at time instead of having a bunch of spagetti hanging down to dig through) and it also comes with lots of switches and components that the Rebel does not. It also costs about 3-4 times what the Rebel kit cost, so that is a factor.

But overall, I would buy a Rebel kit again and probably will for my rpu project. They are certainly easier to use than the Summit kit we put in my Son Don's T...........the instructions on that one were horrible, and we are not exactly novices to wiring, but were still baffled at times during the install and had to guess a lot on how things should be run.

Don