how do i extend my harness under the hood?

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how do i extend my harness under the hood?
kidbrootal avatar
kidbrootal
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I am trying to move all my wires under the hood to the inside of the fenders. i have a 91 b2600i. any help would be appreciated.
midnightmike avatar
midnightmike
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cut and extend one wire at a time, solder and use heat shrink tube, and tape her all up
kidbrootal avatar
kidbrootal
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thanks. I do wiring on our radar system in the marine corps so Im good at soldering and all ot that but where do i get the wire from. I know i need the same gauge. if you have any pics of how you routed or just of your engine bay that would help alot.
paparoach1983 avatar
paparoach1983
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dito
maztang (ryan) avatar
maztang (ryan)
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A little off subject but where are you stationed bro? I was in Jacksonville, NC from 99-04.

You can get the wire from any autoparts store. When I build my frame I am planning on running all the wires in the frame and have them come out where needed. Damn I can't wait to get home and get on that project! haha
88ext22 avatar
88ext22
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I have been wondering the same thing. And what did you guys do with all the extra wires that you have after a carb install? Like all the electrical stuff that is only used with the stock carb. sorry not meaning to jack your thread.
mazdawg(mikey) avatar
mazdawg(mikey)
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With mine it was fairly easy cause I have a 2200. Most of my wires became unneccessary. I untaped my whole harness and started taking out the wires that didn't run to anything. Then to extend it I went to the junkyard and cut bout 3 feet of harness out of another truck to use so I could extend it with the same color wire. I could have used the excess wire I took out but I was being anal. The problem you are gonna have is yours is a 2600i. Most if not all your wires will have to stay. Like mike said its rerouting and cut one at a time.
midnightmike avatar
midnightmike
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mike said it.

i would use another harness from another truck, i will be doing the same as mikey

it wont be hard, but time consuming, and dont rush it
mazdawg(mikey) avatar
mazdawg(mikey)
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I gotta pull my fender off this week ill snap some pics if they help
90-b22dawg [andrew] avatar
90-b22dawg [andrew]
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id say your best bet is to do like mikey and get the harness from another truck in the junkyard and use the same color wires, if you run into a problem you wont have to guess which wire goes to where and it will cut down on the time trying to figure out which wire to hook up where as well.