The interior harness and engine harness has been hacked up over the years and there is a current drain on the battery that will kill it overnight.
There are areas that have multiple splices on one run with different gauge wires, there are several cut wires not going anywhere, and there are multiple splices using cheap plastic connectors with copper showing on both sides.
It’s not really bad enough to replace the entire harness and I have rewired cars before so I plan to replace the bad connections and even pull some of the runs completely from scratch.
The main question that I have is what gauge wire was used as a standard on the ’65?
I know that there are some larger gauge runs from the starter relay and altenator, but I am mainly concerned with all of the other wiring.
I have a wire gauge tool that shows that the existing wiring is bigger than 16 gauge but smaller than 14 gauge AGW.
Thanks in advance,
NightBird Ken
There are areas that have multiple splices on one run with different gauge wires, there are several cut wires not going anywhere, and there are multiple splices using cheap plastic connectors with copper showing on both sides.
It’s not really bad enough to replace the entire harness and I have rewired cars before so I plan to replace the bad connections and even pull some of the runs completely from scratch.
The main question that I have is what gauge wire was used as a standard on the ’65?
I know that there are some larger gauge runs from the starter relay and altenator, but I am mainly concerned with all of the other wiring.
I have a wire gauge tool that shows that the existing wiring is bigger than 16 gauge but smaller than 14 gauge AGW.
Thanks in advance,
NightBird Ken
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