Painless wiring

[Revhendo]

This is my first time wiring at this magnitude, so it's all greek to me. The wires seem to be solid color with printing on them telling you where or what they are or go to. I could'nt really screw this up, or could I?

It's not really all that hard. I've been wiring vehicles for 20 plus years now. I still screw up and I still learn things. It's always helpfull to think of it as plumbing. The water has to flow in one direction, starting from the well (battery), and ending up back in the well. In the auto-electric sense, the flow back to the well is going to be thru the ground of the item being powered up. The flow of the water is controled by a valve, in wiring, it's a switch. I know it's oversimplifying the whole thing, but that's the basic idea of it. When it comes to grounds, I like the phrase, "It has more grounds than dirt." It's espescially important in our beloved Mopars that don't have a full frame to run grounds off of. The unibody structure is nothing more than a big mass of spotwelds. I know of a couple of guys with trunk mounted batteries who actually run a ground cable up to the engine block alongside the battery cable. I've actually done a few that way.

I might add that when you get it all wired. Hook the battery up before you put the fuses in the panel. Check your constant systems and then install one fuse at a time and check each circuit. If you have made an error, it should show up then and be relatively easy to figure out.

Rev.

 

[69 Runner]

I could'nt really screw this up, or could I?

With enough alcohol and idiot friends "helping", anything is possible:grin:

 

[5.7 hemi]

I seem to be going at a snails pace, but it's the quality that I'm after. Thanks for the advice Revhendo, I will follow it.

 

[Revhendo]

It may take longer to do it right the first time, but how long does it take to do it twice?

Rev.