Painless Wiring

Anything I need to know? I have a diagram with all the circuits (and potential future circuits). Looks like I can just have one built to order and start wiring.

I know there is more to it than that however.

Any suggestions or advice?

 

Hey, yeah, I'll come up and watch!
Someday, I'll do this same thing, but not until my original wires give trouble.

 

pretty easy
as Sparky said, lay it all out carefully
no cutting till all are routed
routing and bundling takes the most time

 

If hes going to San Diego....

Maybe the Sparky tour 2010!

 

I guess I have never seen the value in those expensive Painless looms. At least up to the FI era, everything is pretty simple and if you have a good diagram, just make your own-way less $ and you will know whats there when your done. Waytec is a good source for Weatherpack/Metripack Delphi/Packard terminals and the Bussmann fuse/relay blocks which I now use in everything I wire. As noted above, just lay everything out before you start and the fewer connectors you can use, the better.

 

when I still had the F4 in my Jeep, I rewired it from scratch.
Not difficult as you mentioned, and I added a small, Radio Shack fuse block.
I decided at my very last frame-off 8 years ago, to go the Painless route as the coloring and identification of the wires was something I wanted.
And I wanted an updated fuse panel.
It was worth it to me, every penny, even though I did not use all the circuits; they are coiled up and tucked away under the dash.

 

Well, here I am again. After wheeling her a couple of weekends ago (nice seeing you again Dave, and JC is amazing to watch). I decided that this is the winter for a little Jeep maintenance and easy upgrades. I am about to order the painless wiring setup for Jeeps '74 and older. Don't known when I will do it, but after reading the supplied PDF it looks to be something that the ol
Girl is going to benefit from. Anyone still open to headed to Hutch for a Saturday, drinking my beer and watching me mess up a wiring harness?

 

Before ordering Painless look into the EZ wire. Its almost a 1/3rd the cost and every bit as good, better when the cost savings is thrown in.

 

I just finished my EZ wiring kit last week. Super easy and cheaper then a Painless. I got the mini 12 circuit and was $135. Had more wires then I even needed.

P.S. I used to live in Haven, I have a some buddies in Yoder that would be glad to come help drink beer and talk about jeeps with ya.

 

I used the ez wire this summer. Much Cheaper in price. The guy helping me had used both painless and ez wire and said he preferred ez wire over painless. If you look on e bay you can save even more off of ez wire's website.

 

Another vote for the EZ. When I rewired mine I used a small 12v battery to check things as I went along. If you put a fuse and a switch between some small alligator clips you can feel comfortable as you go along and solve problems 1 at a time.

 

Alright! I'm still game to come watch (and help). I have a new Northwest Autowire harness for mine (similar to EZ), but haven't installed it yet.

 

The main argument supporters of painless have is that it has pre-terminated wires.

The harness that Painless sells for pre-74 cj's (P/N 10105) has all open-ended wires. Here's the quote from the product description:

IMO no point in going Painless for a pre-74. I'm going with EZ on my project.