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When I built Pearl, 25 years ago, I made a "hybrid" harness:  I pulled the entire harness(es) from the '69 VW donor, then pulled it apart and added to it for my needs and then installed it in the speedster.  The thought behind this was that all of the colors in the VW wiring diagram in my Bentley service manual would automatically match and all I had to do was add a few more wires and colors and Voila!  I'm done.

That was the thought process, but it probably doubled or tripled the time needed to get everything done, not to mention that nothing from the VW harness was the right length or ended up precisely in the right place so there was a lot of cutting and fiddling - Everything to the front was made from scratch because I added relays and a fuse box under the hood, not under the dash.  Now I have a gas heater in the nose and the harness for that was from scratch and grafted into the existing harness - a real PITA, but it got done and now I'm about to change a lot of the heater harness for the new fuel control module I'll be installing - The old module was in the nose, while the new module is behind the dash so the old harness is junk.

If I were to re-wire her I would assuredly get a new Speedster harness from whichever builder makes the most sense, lay it out on the floor, add the few things I need not already included, make them slightly long and un-terminated, write down the colors and gauge of everything added and slap that puppy in there and be done with it.  Then I could cut and terminate everything new in place.

IF I were to do it again.  Which, at my age, is unlikely unless a grandson wants to learn how to do that.

Last edited by Gordon Nichols
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