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Cuz that's where the good light and air conditioned work bench is. Start of rewire project. Found some cool fuse blocks that you wire yourself. Therefore you can control which ones are always hot, fed by ignition, and live only when switches such as parking lights are on. They snap together so you can add as many as you like in increments of 4. All the grounds will attach to the black buss/ground block. The main power from the battery goes to the power stud below it. The aluminum plate will be used as a template to drill the fire wall when ready to install in buggy.

Got these weather tight plugs that you assemble yourself from Waytek. All connections are soldered and completely sealed. The large loom on the right has 6 wires that will go to the engine compartment and will give me two extra wires if ever needed. The rest go to all the lights. Wide view of fuse block. Wife should get over the bar thing if I can get over her backing the car through the garage door.

Chuck, you're an electrical STUD. That's looking very nice.

I have had dreams like that........wiring nightmare!!! Good job though man. I hate the thought of rewiring my buggy. If I did the birds would have no place to lay thier eggs.

LOVE the idea of conectors. makes an engine swap a little quicker. sorry but I might just have to barrow that idea.

Chuck, looks like your working on an old Johnson outboard, A little dialectric grease on the plugs and you will never have any problems getting them apart. Nice job!

There is no telling what you are going to [FONT=Fixedsys]cook up[/FONT]. Is it true that the oven can be used for shrink wrap? Chuck, you and I have a lot in common - buggy stuff all over the house, the garage, the workshop - but I dont have a stuff in the kitchen. :laugh1: :laugh1: :laugh1: I think that I will borrow the connector idea also. O yea - It really looks great!!!

Looks great. One thing I did that may help is too is to write each circuit on some one inch strips of white heat shrink and then attach the heat shrink to each wire in about three or four places in them loom. Even if I sell my car ten years down the road every wire is clearly marked. Looks slick too. What did you use for the sleeving on the wires? It looks awesome. I also used connectors but could only find boat trailer type ones for a reasonable price...Del City. Oh yea, my harness was built in hotel rooms(on the extra bed) while I was traveling on the road for my job. I always wondered what those maids thought about the garbage the next day. Littered with tie wraps, loom and wire remnants they must have thought I was a terrorist or something. Maybe there is a FBI bullentin on me right now? HEHEHE Anyone know where I can get some C4? MURZ

Cars are full of connectors in all sorts of. Strip the wiring from a couple of wrecks to get all that you will need, along with fuse blocks and relays.

[QUOTE="shaihulud"]Cars are full of connectors in all sorts of. Strip the wiring from a couple of wrecks to get all that you will need, along with fuse blocks and relays.[/QUOTE] The problem with getting connectors out of junk cars is that you either have to splice the wires or take them all apart if you can. The fuse blocks were only like $5.00 each.

Murz wrote. "What did you use for the sleeving on the wires? " I am not sure of the proper terminology but it is just jacketed wire like an extension cord. Extension cord has 3 conductors. The wire came from Skycraft ( a surplus store). They have many size awg with many different number of conductors. Just about anything you could want. I could spend hours in that place. Come to think about it I have.

Hey Chuck, I know its been a while since this post but I am about to start the wiring project and I am using yours as a template. Did you put the disconnects under the dash area so you could remove the body without rewiring? Or are they located at each item they plug into? Dave T

Dave, Chuck won't get on the Manx sight any more. He is over at Thesamba under forums and go to fiberglass buggies. if you want I'll send you his e-mail. Don

Man I hate reading the Samba!! SO dang busy there. ... Thanks for the offer I will go chat with him there. UGH