What did you do to your truck today?

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Originally Posted by 66farmer

I have to install a conduit hose in mine for the power windows. It looks like your using a pretty big. The hose that came in the New Relics kit is around 1".
How are you going to route yor wires after in the hinge post.
Thanks for your post

66farmer,
I went with the big conduits because I like my stuff to "look" factory even though Chevy never offered power windows & locks in a 64 C10. The factory conduits in my 62 Pontiac, 71 Caddy & 72 Cutlass were about the same size.
As far as running the wires down the hinge post I haven't 100% decided on that yet. There is a cross brace in the hinge post located about 2" below the dash, so for easy access the hole to run the wires would have to be below that - but then the wires would show and I don't want that. When I ran my wires in the door jambs for the dome light switches I found there is enough gap in this brace to feed the wire down for the switch but I don't know if I can get 4 more wires (window & door lock) in this gap. I hope so. I hope I'm making myself clear here.
I also found out the hard way that there is a strengthening brace in the doors for the hinge area. Since you're only using a 1" conduit, if you drill your hole a little more to the outside edge of the door you shouldn't have any problems. I taped the door edge in case I slipped with the drill motor I wouldn't gouge the paint. I slipped and hence the blood shed, but the door was fine!
I'm attaching a couple of pictures of how I ran my courtesy light door jamb switch wire. The pics are taken on the passenger side looking up. The bottom of the dash can be seen in the lower right of the pic. The wiring and grommets came from a 73 Chevy C10. The diameter of the grommets required a 1-1/8" hole. Again, I wanted it to look factory. I know-stupid but it's a hang up I have.
Of the last 2 pics, the top one is the drivers door and the bottom one was taken of the passenger door so it looks flip flopped but you can see where the extra bracing runs.