I'm 99% sure I am just going to rewire this truck. Not from scratch but pretty close. The stock harness has been stripped of all fuel injection and emissions circuits, A/C, ABS, most of the display circuits and warning lights and a few lighting circuits. The engine harness is a alsmost done and I'm going to keep it seperate from the rest of the wiring. So many connectors have like 6 wires sticking out of them when they orignially housed 10-15. Many of the relays and fuse slots are not used. A lot of the scraps left over are making it confusing to understand how it will go back together. Plus I'm putting my battery in the bed.



What I'm thinking is reinstalling the heating system completely except for the dash ducts and leaving the heating in defrost mode only. That will give me access to the dash and steering column support bars to attach a 7x11 piece of thin aluminum sheet to which I can remount all the fuses and relays in one consolidated place. Then I can throw a piece of lexan over it to protect it from water and dirt etc.



Even though this sounds like a lot of unnecessary work, I think it might be easier to go through the circuits one by one laying down new wires and connectors versus trying to decrypt the stock harness. There are pretty much shorter paths for everything I am reinstalling anyway and I'd like to use some weatherpack connectors.



Anyone have any sources for relay and fuse panels, the kinds where a common hot busbar runs behind that you can seperate? I was looking at waytechwire.com and another site for supplies.



Also anyone know where you can bu like 25 foot spools of primary and crosslink wire, a lot of the mail order places are like 100ft minimum and don't cary a loit of colors. Any comments? good idea, bad idea? I think sometimes the easiest way to do things you don't fully understand is just to start from scratch-- hoping that wil be the right move here as it has been for other facets of the project.