- Hey, this is Davin with Hagerty.
This is our RedLine rebuild update
for our 1950 pickup truck. Boy, I don't know about you,
but it seems like I'm stuck in the '50s
these last couple of projects.
But, hey that Buick's going well.
We got a couple of snags,
but as far as waiting for some things,
so I figured I'd take my time
and use it wisely,
and install this LMC wiring harness kit
into our 50 pick up truck. And you can see I got,
I have a key,
and I got a key made
so now I actually have a key for the ignition switch.
I won't need to use the push button
on the frame rail,
'course it'll also be tough to reach
relative to the seat.
And then with this is,
is the vent up on the front of that truck.
Right underneath the windshield,
you have a vent that flips up.
I pulled it out earlier because
while it was rusted right tight,
and I went through and lubed everything up
and got it broke loose.
And yep, you're right,
I'm gonna put this rusty old nasty thing
right back in.
Because A, it functions,
and B, I'm not restoring this truck.
I know everyone is all hung up
that I'm putting in fresh parts
into a rusty pickup truck.
Yes, and it'll be okay.
So, with that,
my first step is gonna get this bad boy
out of the package,
and lay 'er out.
Oh, spaghetti!
Where's the spaghetti begin?
Ho ho, look at that.
That's one harness!
"I don't know what to do" "with all these multiple pieces!"
Neither do I.
Huh, we got a lotta wire.
For such a simple truck.
But, all right.
So, at any rate, here we are.
I took my wiring harness out of the bag,
and all I've really done at this point
is I separated everything out.
We got a batch of wires here,
a batch here, a batch here.
This is the main harness, obviously.
And another piece.
So just in general looking at things,
trying to get a bearing of what is what.
I can see based on a large tight cluster,
and the fact that these are
for light bulbs or bulbs,
that this is the dash side of things.
Just as simple as that.
And then this is gonna probably come out
somewhere around here.
Roughly.
This looks like about headlight stuff.
So probably in here is where it comes out,
onto the firewall.
So get a kind of an idea of what things are.
But at the end of the day,
I do have a wiring schematic that came with it.
Now I said this was from LMC truck parts,
that's a hundred percent correct,
in the function that I ordered it through
LMC truck parts.
At the end of the day it's an American auto wire harness.
And as you can see
that they've supplied a very nice
color coded wiring schematic.
Which, these are not difficult to follow,
but you do have to follow them,
as in tracing wires
and know where things are at.
And what they're hooking up to.
So it's going to be fairly straightforward,
from, you know,
blue wire to the directional signal,
so on and so forth, dash lights.
And they should land fairly well
as far as the components.
So my process is going to be this,
I'm going to finish stripping out the old,
if there's anything left,
which I think I took everything out,
but I'm sure there's something I missed.
Finish ripping out all the old stuff,
and then I'll start laying this up
and kind of duplicate where the old was at
as far as the routing in general,
because this does not tell me,
it needs to be pinned down two inches,
from the firewall to the right.
It doesn't do that.
You need to use a little common sense
and put it where it's not gonna,
wires aren't going to be pinged on a metal surface.
You don't want to have any sort of
edge rubbing on anything.
So to use the key is an example,
if this wire comes in here,
don't route it here and then have it doing this,
'cause you'll have a short,
and then you'll be wondering why it won't start.
Here's the headlights.
They're pretty nice, that's not bad.
All right.
With that, here we go.
Get off there.
You stay there.
All right.
(whistling) (upbeat rock music)
Okay, we have our,
we started getting our harness put into position.
The majority of it obviously goes through
the top hole here,
and feeds everything from the
front side of the firewall.
And this is going to be on the backside
for all the fancy gauges that we have in here.
So one thing I want to point out though,
is as you route this,
be very slow to cut wires.
Most likely you have it routed incorrectly,
or at least that's been my experience.
And these are usually very very close.
You might find that something needs to be rerouted,
but at the end of the day,
check at least 14 times before you cut once.
That's my recommendation.
So, with that,
I'm going to start with,
I don't have a grommet right today,
but I'll get a grommet here later today,
and get that up in here,
'cause you do not want your your metal lines
rubbing direct,
I'm sorry, your wires,
rubbing directly against a sharp edge on metal.
That will raise a lot of havoc.
But I'm going to start here,
just kind of temp some things up.
I know it's got to go up above this cross brace,
and then to feed the two gauges,
and the headlight switch.
That's really the main thing.
And then this has a couple bare leads with no connectors,
so I need to figure out how I,
basically wire up the turn signal switch.
So I'm going to have to take the turn signal switch off.
And I'll pull it right out,
put it on the workbench,
look at it get it all taken apart,
and then decide how I want to wire that
after I know what's inside.
That though, screwdriver,
that's all I'm going to need for the most part.
And let's see what we got.
(upbeat rock music)
All right, so,
with everything where I'm at right now,
underneath the dash here,
I have all the wires run up through the firewall,
I have the headlight switch is mounted,
I do not have this gauge pack done
because while that,
I need to send out two of the gauges
to get them repaired.
The back of the speedometer is connected
as far as the the two bulbs that light it up
and the high beam bulb.
And the ignition switches hooked up.
Everything is routed
all the way out to the base of the ignition wires,
out to the starter.
These are the four wires that are left over
to put into the turn signal switch,
which I mention I need to,
I'm gonna take this out,
go put it on the on the bench,
and understand how this is all wired in.
I'm also gonna need some sort of wire loom
to cover these to go up through here
so I don't have any issues.
And then of course, lastly,
while I was here I decided I should
install the air conditioning.
The beautiful lever that actuates
that wonderful little column vent
that brings all the fresh air
off the top of the hood into the car.
It cools us off.
(clacking) There we go.
All right, onward and upward.
(clanging) Oh hey, look at that.
I'll have to see if I can find some blue acrylic
that you can heat that,
that post up.
Get it hot,
and then shove the end down,
that's what I used to do
to make screwdriver handles.
It works pretty cool.
Did you like that? I gave you an update as I crawled out.
(upbeat rock music)
Hey.
We have our main wiring harnesses
all routed underneath the dash,
and connected where we can.
We have that one gauge that got cleaned up and put in.
But otherwise our dimmer switch is in,
our break switch is in,
the fuse block is in,
the voltage regulator is still here.
Not sure what condition that is,
but we'll figure that out.
But all the wires are routed.
These are for the starters,
there's not much I can do with them right now
until the engines back in, of course.
This is for the front headlights and lights,
and that also again,
I can't do anything with it until I have the clip on,
so in the meantime,
it's going to hang up here.
Just to be up out of the way.
And our rear line is run as far as we can take it.
Again, we need to do the taillights.
So, for now,
main harness is in, and this is where we're going to stop
and probably tackle the fuel system next,
and then get the motor and transmission back in,
and then the front clip,
and then shore up the pickup truck bed.
So that's a wrap for today.
Thanks for watching,
hopefully you found it interesting,
and we got more to finish up on this truck
before we can drive it down the road.
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so you can enjoy your ride.
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