Has anyone installed a universal chassis harness? Options

[zach914v8]

My chassis wire harness is garbage. Recently the wires have started to disintegrate and I have shorts everywhere. When I fix one spot somewhere else fails, and I have to band-aid more crap. I am starting to worry about my car catching fire, and I'm tired of it.

My car is a 74 with a carbed v8. I'm not thrilled about the prospect of buying a used 40yo harness either.

My question is have any of you out there installed a painless/universal chassis harness in your cars?

If so how did you wire the dimmer/light switch/pop up headlights and 2 speed wipers?

What problems did you come across, and what fix it?



Thanks
Zach

[Chris914n6]

There is a guy on ebay that has a good portion of the factory stripes on hand. I would, and will need to myself someday, rebuild the factory harness per spec and add in a few for the Nissan engine and gauges, power windows & locks, extra lights and stuff.
I've already added relays for the headlights and starter to get the current out of the switches.
I also bought a couple of blade fuse boxes to update that and will run the rear wires thru the driver long instead of over to the middle of the car and back in front of the engine.

[zach914v8]

I have owned the car for 17 years. I bought it when I was 18, so it has had to be parked outside for various reasons over the years. Now that Im old and own a house it lives in a proper garage.

I really want to put in something new as far as the wiring is concerened. The car is for the most part a race car, I only want the bar bones functions. Lights, turn signals, brake lights, wipers, gauges, engine, ect..

Im sure someone out there has put a universal wire harness in one of these cars.

I wired a 36 ford at work with a painless kit and it was easy. But the kit was set up for a gm ignition switch, single speed wipers and a gm headlight switch, no pop up lights.

So some problems will arise with universal harness, but I think they can be worked around.

These cars are old, and getting older and the options are thin.