Nice truck and color. I hope to aquire a 1965 F250 custom cab camper special preferably caribbean turquoise like the one my dad had. Originally it had a sweet slide in camper with wonderful amber shellac birch cabinets and seafoam appliances.
They can be found! Good luck and let me know if anything I have done has helped or if I can get you more info. The nice thing about the '65's is that I think they still make the radiator subframe part for them. For the '66 F-100's you are out of luck!
I don't have any experience with wiring harnesses, but American Autowire is the only one I ever see repeatedly endorsed by other builders in ford forums and groups. I've seen mixed reviews for painless and kwick wire kits.
Thanks for your input. I will have to investigate those. Not that I'm in a hurry to start another one of these trucks, but there's one for sale up the street cheap (under $2k) and it sounds like it needs a rewire.
Yep - Nobody is making a true OEM harness, even in component form (Firewall to Engine, Firewall to Dash, to Ignition, etc.) Wish I had better knowledge, but I'm just not finding one anywhere - even now.
Good videos. I've got two old 1966 f100's that I'm slowly working on. I had time on my hands staying home during the covid pandemic so decided to finish my parts truck first before starting my good truck since it will be cheaper to finish. I'll be looking for a harness for my 2nd truck later on so was interested in your experience with a harness. Thanks for the great info in your videos!
Good luck and God Bless. Let me know if you have any questions that I can help with or if a quick video of my truck might answer a question. I'd be more than happy to film something quick and pop it out here.
Not directly. What I did for the cigar lighter is I took the power feed for the power windows and utilized that instead. I'm never going to put power windows on this truck, so that was an easy trade for me. There are power feeds for windows and locks on this harness - it's the Classics Update harness so you have all sorts of those that you could utilize.
With the current 'upgrade' wiring harness, no. The ammeter will not work off a one wire alternator from what I am seeing. If I remember correctly (and I've slept at least once since tackling this), It is looking at the delta of the amperage off the voltage regulator to show charging vs discharging. I'm actively looking for a way to find a 'factory' harness setup and roll back to that from the AAW 'upgrade' kit but it's proving hard to find. Any tips - please let me know.
I got the American AutoWire Classics Update kit. I'm still looking for a factory harness setup and will probably move back to that setup if I ever find one. The one I have is working, but there's some key changes to equipment and methodology that I had to make to adapt it to the oem equipment I'm running.
