3 Simple Tricks to Rewire Your Classic Car (EASY)

Our 1965 c10 pickup is overdue for a rewire. We are gonna get this classic back on the road using a 22 circuit universal wiring harness from speedway motors it is a high quility kit at a very affordable price. Rewiring is intimiadating but if you can follow the simple instructions you ll be on the road again before you know it.

for those of you with shorter attention spans like myself we threw in some extra projects like some repair on george jones our riding lawnmower and a few vintage schwinn bicycles.
here is a link to the harness i used

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[jerrygibs]

I usually get an intellectual lift when I watch your videos. I think it's because you mix humor with trial & error and a personal gift to fix things. I do have a suggestion or more. Stay safe, healthy, strong, discerning, keep an attitude of peacefulness and be successful. Blessings and prayers to you and your family in Jesus's Name.☝🙏🙌💪👊

[clarkmarkey]

Another story of my youth.. In 81 I need a car to go to school nearly 300 miles away, in Iowa. I have sold my 65 Galaxy to a guy who obviously liked it even more than I did. The 67 Dodge has left do to the same situation. It was two weeks till the classes start at old Lincoln Tech. Driving home from picking up a stash of Ford FE engine parts that needed to be sold, a 63 Fairlane is poking over the sidewalk of a side street. "Stop! We need to look at that car!!" My friend drives around the block and there sits a rust free, southern hardtop. It has no carpet, back seat or wiring. Well, there was enough wiring to make it start and go down the road with a charged battery. The money I hadn't spent foolishly, yet, bought that Fairlane. That price was somewhere around 150 bucks It made the 20 mile drive home.
Armed with only an article in Rod and Custom magazine with a simple T bucket wiring "diagram" ( more of a vague suggestion) and some rudimentary tools and long spools of black 14 ga and yellow 10 gauge with a bunch of dad's crimp connectors, that old thing had working circuits at all switches in 3 days. The generator was even polarized and charging! The factory plugs needed were scavenged from a couple cars in the junk yard along with all the bulbs and a fuse box from a some piece of machinery. What youth and ignorance can accomplish without supervision!

[jasondavis]

I like how the concentration span means a few projects getting fixed in one video :) I'm enjoying your content. Keep up the hard work :)

[charleshamlin]

Glad to hear the update on "Foster" the shepherd. Love seeing Dog. I have a red-nose pitti rescue, "Cannon". I also get to the point mentally where I have to just close the garage door and walk away. Cannon gets it and is never critical.

[tedcorey]

My wife would love a matching, his and hers bike set .

[AJStarch]

1. Growing up wrenching on a gravel driveway makes me super appreciate my concrete drive now! 2. Inline sixes are my favorite motors! I wish I could have fit one in my T. 3. I’ve been using these butt connectors with solder and heat shrink built in to them. Started using them when a chipmunk decided to make a meal of the wiring harness of my 2002 Jeep Liberty right at the firewall. (Talk about a miserable wiring repair!) You put the wires in the connector and heat it with a heat gun until the solder melts and the heat shrink shrinks. Being an anal engineer type I also add additional heat shrink over the whole connector. 4. Great to see the Chevy back on its feet! Am I missremembering or didn’t the new ranch come with another sixer in the garage?

[DatBoiOrly]

i find it really easy to rewire cars, the way i like to do it is:
start fresh - you don't know what wires are good & not good so it's honestly less headache inducing knowing all you've done is correct
break it down- basically break down each group of wires into catagories engine, body & lights then break those into sub catagories so for lights headlights dim & main beam, indicators auxilery lights esc & write them down till you have a list of all your components with the correct wires with the correct colors associated with them
dry run- run wire to each component loose to where they need to go
bunching- bunch each component wires together with tape or shrink wrap & label them
bunch the bunches- bunch all your cables together of your associated catagories
finally wiring it once everything is there all that's left for you to do is connect it up

[timothynewkirk]

Got to admit: I enjoy wiring. Just don't get in a hurry! The relay circuits are the only part that you have to think. Real Glad you dig CWM. Cheers buddy, ...Newk from Kentucky

[LTscustomgarage]

I use the speedway harnesses too. They're very affordable compared to the bigger brands, and as long as you're ok with a couple miss spellings on the fuse box it's just as good.

[Ruststored]

I use that same kit. it works well. your a busy man, keep up the good work.

[AtomicReverend]

I am glad to see we both get distracted with new shiny objects lol
This is a bit of a ramble you have been forewarned but I wanted to let you know I can personally relate↓

The other day I bought a 1995 Ranger with a 2.3 and a 5-speed because I wanted a car for fuel mileage... I bought it from a Teenager (everyone knows you should never buy a car from a young person but I did because I'm real good at giving advice not taking it), it was was $300 on Offer Up so I had to rescue it... so then then drove my big pick up I have decided that it's just for trailer hauling around 100 miles across Southern California to go get it... I have been daily driving the big truck for the last two or three months daily and it is killing me driving it in Southern California traffic when it isn't stop and go driving it gets about 9 or 10 milea a gallon and it takes mid-grade fuel (2005 dodge hemi pickup), gas here in California on average is around $4.60 a gallon.

Anyways getting to the point Instead of just buying a decent small truck that would be handy and reliable in the $3000- maybe $3500- range that I could just hit the key on and go that is stock. I figured "I got nothing better to do with my time and I most certainly don't have enough project cars and a 50 year old house that is falling apart so why don't I take this hack job of a slammed ranger on and make it my driver and save it from the crusher and build a mini truck like what was cool when I was fresh out of high school (that ironically I would have never driven at that age because it was a new car and a four-cylinder and wasn't a rockabilly type ride), I turned 18 in 1996 all my friends had mini trucks but I had a 1973 Lincoln Continental four-door, that I paid hardly anything for with my dad's help (I still have the Lincoln and although it isn't really my style I will never get rid of it because of all the memories attached to it).
Anyways fast forward to three maybe four weeks ago now and I officially acquired a ranger that wasn't in bad shape but it wasn't really in good shape either it had a lot of nickel dime problems that had not been addressed properly because young people generally don't do that what it did have going for it is somebody did the axle flip lower in the rear and it was also lowered in the front (I found out after I bought it, it was improperly done)... So as of today I still haven't driven the ranger any real distance other than around the neighborhood and in and out of the front yard but it has consumed every free moment I've had. I have bought probably $1000 worth of stuff from the typical internet stores and another few hundred dollars from ebay getting rid of all the ugly modern LED lights that looks so out of place on a 1990s pickup... Then hitting the car swap meet and buying some cheap stereo equipment that looks 1990s but has Bluetooth (I like internet radio) and if a single cab Ranger isn't small enough I for some reason have thought it would be a good idea to put a 10 inch sub behind the seat because that is logical Lol

Then back to the classified ads and I bought some cool retro inspired Rocket wheels because why would you want a ranger that has a 3/5 drop on stock Ranger Wheels that a teenager painted black when you could have some 17" wheels with low profile tires that are pretty much useless other than they look cool because why would you want a pickup truck that actually functions like a truck but I digress... I decided that if I am going to make my pickup truck useless I might as well do it 100% so I needed a tonneau cover to help complete the look and $20 later I got a fire engine red tonneau cover...
Of course I can't leave it that way because it is red and the truck is a weird factory green color that was popular in the mid-1990s fords so I then went to a auto paint store here in Riverside and had them mix some paint matched the factory color because why not spend more money when I could have just painted the tonneau cover black with a 20-dollar quart of rustoleum but you can spend $200 to make it a weird green... And then tonneau cover when the hood and roof is faded from scorching in the Southern California Sun I decided if I'm painting the tonneau cover I might as well do the roof and the hood...
That leads us to you tonight, I just masked the truck off I got my alarm set for 7:00 a.m. so I can beat the wind and I'm going to spray the truck in the driveway... All this and I still haven't driven the truck more than about 1 mile around the neighborhood. I'm in this thing a small fortune and it's still costing me money lol and I haven't even driven it... I still got to get it aligned and put an exhaust on it, the kid thought it was a good idea to unbolt the exhaust behind the catalytic converter, I am almost 46 years old I don't like tickets for loud exhaust and more importantly nobody wants to hear an uncorked modern 4-cylinder but that's another story.

I am trying hard to focus on this pick up just because my garage is a nightmare with parts to all the unfinished cars ( they are in no particular order a 1931 Model A, 1973 Lincoln, 1951 Kaiser, 1952 Kaiser, 1953 Kaiser [why have one weird car when you could have three that all look the same], a 1919 Hupmobile and my 1960 Dodge d100 pickup that I can't bring myself to sell but I have absolutely no use for it...
I decided the other day that I would sell the Kaisers one at a time even though it is a complete car at a thousand dollars I still don't have a taker, I thought they were kind of cool looking but I guess nobody knows what they are.
I want my model A pickup finished but I keep finding new projects to get distracted by and I still got a few more itches I want to scratch like I really want to do a spirit of America 1976 boogie van (I really like the 68 through 74 Ford vans with the big aluminum chrome front grill) and I want to make a neat camper on the inside and a full bicentennial era look on the outside.
Plus I want to work on that hupmobile, I got a slew of model a parts most of it is relatively stalk other than some performance stuff for a Model A engine and I got to say I really want to build a banger hot rod I think it would be fun to go to the local Burger stand car shows that pretty much every city has on Friday or Saturday night.

All in all that is my ramble, I am enjoying watching you do your junk at least lets me know that I'm not alone...
I don't know if I'm going to post any videos on my projects because I don't feel real comfortable on camera but I just wanted to let you know you're not alone in your "chasing squirrels".

On a side note I'm just curious how come you used a 22 circuit fuse kit? How come you didn't go with like a 12 or an 8.

I bought one for my model a pickup circuit kit it's been a while since I've looked at it but you figure a Model A and your truck are pretty much one of the same when it comes to wiring and I can't imagine I would ever use all 12 circuit let alone 22.

[HermanMunster-oj]

U should hook ur radio back up just to listen to Trump ralleys👍😂That will send sum libs over the edge! Great video love to see the dog👍👍

[garyashdown]

I've a couple of questions for you young man, the first one is, where did you come up with the name Between the Sharks, and what breed of dog is dog 🐕. Looking forward to you breaking something in the next post 😅. Cracking good channel. Gary 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[jpalberthoward]

I have to ask, what happened to the Model T? Did you sell it? Did you just give up on it? Did it get pushed to the back burner because of priorities?
You were making phenomenal progress on it, and then it just went out the window.That's a shame.
You were kicking ass on it, and my respect for your determination and your problem solving abilities went through the roof. I was digging your accomplishments.
Is it gone? Are you coming back to it?

[madlukasik]

It always sucks when your working on something and you have another project to fix and you only have so much time to do that in....

[tedcorey]

Never re wired, but if the chance presented itself the first thing I would do is remove the seat and steering wheel, I'm old and NOT a contortionist .

[cermem]

what happend to your left eye were you talking when you should have been listening ?

[bookworm-hvnm]

P S want a good digital bluetooth radio station to listen to scan for PLANET ROCK you won't be disappointed

[bookworm-hvnm]

you don't have a radio for the news dum dum it's for music M U S I C get me wow texas much

[bookworm-hvnm]

idea get bluetooth radio pair to phone put music on NO NEWS bingo