If you go straight stock replacement, it will be a breeze.
If you go custom, it depends to what level of anal you think you will hit
while doing it.
Me, I slid to the far right on this and while it will be very professional
looking, I do not ever want to do this again. Kinda like my first vynil top
and overhead in the compartment. Once is enough. Granted, I did a lot of
mods with the harness, but I certainly got nickled and dimed to death doing
this thing. Let's not forget to mentioned the amount of time involved.
First, I had to create a wiring schematic for the Painless Harness and fuse
block. Painless will not give it to you and you have to reverse engineer
their directions. Once that was drawn out I layed out the roadster schematic
next to it along with all my modifications and intergrated it to the
Painless harness. I turned it into a PDF and had Kinko's print it out large.
While running the wires I had a lot of corrections to the schematic. I am at
the tail end of it and only have the audio head unit and forward speakers to
wire up before I test it.
Even though I went with a harness from Painless wiring and went from there.
I still had a lot of wire I had to purchase along with various connectors,
heat shrink and such. I also rewired the back of the fuse block for a couple
circuits.
If you do go custom harness get a fuse block that has all of the circuits
you will need and sit down and think it all the way through before you buy
anything.
----- Original Message -----
From: "oliver" <sumton@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Datsun-Roadsters@Autox. Team. Net" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 3:29 PM
Subject: wiring
> hi, all.
>
> i'm slowly moving forward on restoring an early 67 low windshield 1600.
>
> perhaps i should use the word renovation.
>
> i'm starting to look at replacing the gages.
>
> i'm thinking about replacing the wiring. myself.
>
> conceptually, it seems pretty straightforward. every item needs a hot, a
> fuse, and a ground. and maybe a switch in there somewhere. i'm a
> computer
> geek, so i think i understand electrons <grin>
>
> anyone btdt and like to share?
>
> i'd sure appreciate it.
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