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Originally posted by elmono
took the dash off, i've got wires that are sliced, spliced, and held together with duct tape. do i go with a new harness or do i fix what i've got? (if fixing's the answer, will chilton's and haynes tell me what i need to know?)
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I have fixed some 26 year old chassis wiring harness and a lot of interior harness with quality heat shrink tubing and a soldering gun. You can make it as good and strong as new. And it looks great. Dont waste your money on heat shrink tubing from radio shack or sears or whatever. I get mine in like 48" peices from the Earls performance dealer in my area.. Damn if I cant remember the brand though. But its real good stuff, comes in like 1/16", 3/32", 1/8" etc etc.. and it shrinks like heck and comes in a bunch of different colors etc. Its really good stuff. Thats what I personally would do. Replacing an entire harness is gonna be a huge job, and unless youre doing a 100% restoration or whatever, I dont see the point. Replace any part of the harness that is REAL bad or coroded or whatever, but the factory stuff cant be beat. For a fraction of the cost and time of replacing the entire harness with the painless kit, you could have yours in perfect shape. You should see how sweet the chassis wiring is on my 77 K25. I used all original stuff except for very few spots where I had to splice. It came out sweet.
Lacquer thinner on a rag will clean the wires up real well and have them looking like new again also. (The coating, not the actual conductor)
theres my $0.02
mike