what do you guys think? i tried to re arrang some wires from my car alarm yesterday, drilled holes in my dash for the alrm ligth so every body can see it now, and another hole for valle. but none of my interior lights work, nor none on the dash... i want too but i dont have scematics... help me out here guys. should i?:)

An assembly manual has a schematic. It would be alot of work!

yeah well cant be that super hard? i mean all the wires are taped up and the connectores are plugged in, but there are some ground wires not grounded and i have to figure out how to put in the dash ground thing for the ligths. i think i will take my alrm out again, and reinstall it then ground those other wires first. to see if i can get some dash lights to work. have you ever done it brett?

I did mine over the winter while the dash was apart. Actually I pretty much had to anyways as I replaced my harness, but I replaced with a good used harness. The harness I used as a replacement didn't have a console harness in it, so I took that out of my original and spliced it into the replacement just like a factory splice.

It really is fairly easy to do. Other than the passenger door dome light switch and glove box light, nearly everything else is directly behind the gauges. I would think you could do it in two nights pretty easily. Thats if you really take some time to make it look good and check all the connections.

By the way if you do decide to do it, it's the perfect time to make good soldered splices for stereo and gauges and such. Also it works nice while it is out to plan ahead for any extra gauges or tach's or anything else that has lights and splice them into the factory dash light harness correctly. I like it that all my gauges and tach come on with the headlight switch now.

This really should be moved to electrical forum by the way.

Jeff

oops sorry bout that. thanks

I did something similar to quickss. When my car was disassembled I laid the dash and engine harness out of the floor. With the wiring diagram I could trace every wire and connector. I scrubbed everything cleaned and made repairs.

I too added wire harness for my floor shift, stereo, courtesy lights, tach wiring and my after market gauge panel. It was easy to do, much easier than laying on my back. I got all the wire lengths right and everything tucked into place.

I is a lot of work to R&R the harness, but much faster to inspect and repair. I didn't do any bench testing, but you certainly could before putting everything back in.

i say do it. i rewired about 80% of a 66 beaumont's dash, without a scematics. man old cars are insainely easy. and it all started with me removing a alarm from the customers car. then the ignition box was a can of wirms, and it went down hill from there