replacement wire harness?

[Zorm]

is there anyone out there that makes a replacement wire harness for our trucks? I know mine has several problems and was just thinking.

[fordman]

yes they do but you have to use your old plugs with them they are just wires that are hooked together the same as your truck. and they arent the same colors anymore. they use a gm color coded wire. i think soem of the vendors may be pailess ezwirign frank somebody or maybe its ron fransis i am thinking of.

[tybob81]

Painless makes a kit for our trucks and is ford color coded.

[mrsnicks]

painless

ron francis

haywire

to name a few.

Patrick

[stephen44]

not to hijack..but ...

if you buy a painless harness P/N 10118 for example - does this include the shunts for the ammeters etc ?

what i mean is this a good way of going from idiot lights to gauges ? - if so that makes it pretty attractive with the $100 off

- Stephen

[fitzwell]

the harness is set up to do either one, just depends on how you wire things up at the cluster. Personally, i wouldn't run an ammeter..just kinda scary all that voltage going thru a 40 some odd year old gauge.

[stephen44]

isn't all the amps going through the shunt (new) and a fraction going to the meter (which scales up) ? - the volts remains 12-15 at both places.



- Stephen

[Thunderfoot]

The Amp meter does use a "shunt circuit" which is only taking a fraction of the current to do the measurement with, this is why they are not that great of a gauge... Better off using a Voltage Gauge.

[stephen44]

yup - i agree - i just wanted to use an old f600 cluster i have - but my '67 only has idiot lights - hence the question

sorry - Zorm - did not mean to take over your thread - but i hope some of the Q & A's were relevant to you to ?

- Stephen

[Zorm]

I know painless is proud of there harness, stephen44 thats fine, I am going to be swaping in some aftermarket gauges anyway, so you question helps.