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Offline CrazyPete

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Painless wiring
« on: July 06, 2007 - 02:46:19 PM »
anyone use one of their kits?  I see they just came out with a new kit for mopars 66-76 with the correct color codes just wondering if anyone has one yet?

1970 Dodge Challenger T/A      http://heartlandmopars.com
1970 Plymouth Barracuda Gran Coupe
1976 Dodge Dart Sport
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Offline Devil

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Re: Painless wiring
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2007 - 02:58:37 PM »
I did my entire Challenger with this, came out great.

Ryan
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69 Charger R/T SE
70 Barracuda
74 Dart Swinger
93 RamCharger
88 Caprice Classic Brougham

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Re: Painless wiring
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2007 - 08:12:01 PM »
Is it hard to rewire a whole car???

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Re: Painless wiring
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2007 - 08:50:59 PM »
Not if you prepare before hand.  I'm not on my home computer right now, but I have a list of things I did to prepare to do the rewire, and if I had a full weekend to do it, I could have done it.  But with work and school, I could only get a bit done here and there.  I'll post more tomorrow when I return home.

Ryan
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71 Challenger R/T Clone
69 Charger R/T SE
70 Barracuda
74 Dart Swinger
93 RamCharger
88 Caprice Classic Brougham

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Re: Painless wiring
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2007 - 10:00:19 PM »
Ok, finally got some time to sit down and type.

1) Get factory wiring schematics.  They are on the internet, I have the manuals, etc...

2) I downloaded the directions way before hand and went through it page by page figuring out what goes where.

3) Made a tape box on the floor of my garage the size and shape of the Challenger.  I then began to lay everything out to where it should go, headlights, electric fans, etc...  I then taped up the wires going to similar areas. 

4) Here I started adding a few odds and ends I needed to do, like relays for the lights, relay for the electric fans, and my new Autometer gauge cluster ends that didn't come in the stock setup.

5) Pull out the old harness, carefully.  I had to reuse the old bulb sockets and connectors on the new harness.  I cleaned all the old sockets and connectors with electrical cleaner and used some elbow grease to get them nice and clean.  I soldered them together and used heat shrink tubing over everything to ensure a good seal.

6) With the original wiring schematic, the new schematic, some of my "knowledge", I began to put things together and started wiring things together.  When everything was wired up correctly, she started right up.


This took me a few weeks to do, but not because it was difficult, but because of school, work, a g/f and living 2 hours away, I couldn't get a full weekend to do everything.  If I had a nice weekend to work, I could have gotten it done in two days probably.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Here is a link to the instructions for the setup.

http://www.painlessperformance.com/Manuals/90542Manual.pdf

Here is a link to most wiring diagrams for our mopars.

http://www.mymopar.com/wiringdiagrams.htm





Next step... how to make 3 grilles into 1?!?!?!



Ryan
« Last Edit: July 07, 2007 - 10:04:43 PM by Devil »
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/hemipwr70/
http://carsinbarns.blogspot.com




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71 Challenger R/T Clone
69 Charger R/T SE
70 Barracuda
74 Dart Swinger
93 RamCharger
88 Caprice Classic Brougham