Feedback on a Ron Francis wiring kit?

[halfafish]

I'm contemplating buying one locally that's specific to Mopars, but wanted to see if there was any user feedback on the product before pulling the trigger. Has anyone used one of these?

 

[Belvedere408]

Zach I bought one to re-wire my 67 Plymouth. It was way too over my head and ended up with an M&H harness. I'm not an electrical guru. I liked the kit but to me wasn't Mopar specific most all connectors were GM

 

[gkent]

Specific to Mopars. Oh yeah ! WHICH Mopars ?!?!?

 

[RR Fan Dan]

I used a painless on my 68. It was my first ever rewire and I completed by myself with no helper or help in a few days. The car was put together when I did so it wasn’t painless, but the harnes was well thought out and mostly plug and play. I won’t be doing another wiring job unless the car is stripped down (LOL)

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Any harness you buy has to be adapted to your cars stuff unless you use aftermarket gauges and what not. Which is a total pain in the *** to get everything working with an aftermarket harness. The hardest portions of these aftermarket harness's is the turn signals for Mopar since everything they make is based on GM style turn signal connectors. I mean it can be done but that's one of the harder parts. I wired up a 1971 Satellite and ended up taking that harness back out and installing all new M&H harnesses.. Guess what? Everything worked and it took about 4 hours to wire the entire car. Not days cutting and splicing. Unless you are completely bored and just have nothing to do I'd stay away from a harness that isn't specifically for your car.

 

[halfafish]

Thanks for the feedback folks. I went ahead and got this harness, it was priced at about 2/3 off and brand new. The adventure awaits me on next year's cold winter nights...

 

[451Mopar]

I'm contemplating buying one locally that's specific to Mopars, but wanted to see if there was any user feedback on the product before pulling the trigger. Has anyone used one of these?

If you just want stock original type wiring then get the M&H (Year One) or Evens reproduction wiring harnesses. They will save you hours of time, likely over 20+ hours.
The Non-Reproduction, but "Mopar" Specific kits usually just means they come with the connector shells that fit the original switches. In other words, usually a fairly generic wiring harness with GM color coded wires that need to be run, bundled, cut to length, wrapped, spliced or crimped to loose terminals and put into the "Mopar" connector shells. They usually don't even have a bulkhead connector, and if they do, It is usually a generic one. They also won't have lamp sockets or the molded push on connectors like used for the fuel and temp sending units. Also, you will likely be spending more time to get materials to complete the harnesses.
They are good material quality with decent instructions, but alot of additional work to install.
Used a full Ron Francsis "Express" $600+ kit on a car with a bunch of custom wiring for a friend. Still has to source many items, and it took a few weekends to get it wired (maybe 40 hours?), but included EFI, TCI 6X transmission, Digi-Lights, Custom dash with all aftermarket gauges, and such.

 

[Xp29h]

I'm contemplating buying one locally that's specific to Mopars, but wanted to see if there was any user feedback on the product before pulling the trigger. Has anyone used one of these?

I used RF kit to completely rewire the entire car! The car was a mess! It went pretty well over all and does take some master planning as you go. The directions and schematics are good and relatively easy to follow. The kit was well made and put together. I would go that route again!

The only issue is RF directions say to use their schematic only. You will need the old original one too for reference. So plan on that.

Good luck!