On to the wiring harness
Hi All
I had put the wiring harness in several weeks ago, but this week I started actually connecting everything up and powering up the lights. Wiring harness is a duplicate of the original harness that I made up about 20 years ago. So things went pretty smoothly other than dirt or fading made reading some of the color traces hard. Took two days to get the dash and rear lights all connected up and working.
Only problem that I have not figured out is that the when the brake lights come on they are not brighter than the tail lights. Bit of a problem only way you can tell that the brake lights come on is that two more of the little tail lights come on.
While in the big modern tail light assemblies that have two element bulbs 1154s. When the only the brake is on that element is noticeably brighter than the tail only but when both are on together there is no difference. So I suspect a cross connection or poor ground in one (both) of the tail light assemblies.
When I made the new harness I used all the correct color codes and sizes (modern wire but with cloth covering) it is copper wire instead of the original steel strand wire. I have the original harness all pinned out on a 3x8 piece of plywood with all the wires labeled. Is what I have used to make wiring harnesses and as a large reference.
Cheers Phil
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