Electrical

[Vick68]

Ok I've been working on my 73 CJ5 for a year and half. Body work is done, motor has new gaskets and seals, carb is rebuilt, new clutch, resurfaced flywheel, new headlights and tailights. Now I'm to the wiring. We put the motor back in yesterday. The jeep didn't have a wiring harness when I bought it. My buddy that was helping me with everything told me to buy a universal wiring kit and we would hook it up. Well I called him other day and he doesn't have time. I've never done any kind of wiring and this harness is bit overwhelming. Its an EZ wire brand. I didn't have one to look at to start with. Where do I start with this? I know that the jeep is purdy simple headlights, turn signals,wiper motor, the motor, aftermarket cd and the gauges are about it. The wires are labeled, but I'm completely oblivious.

 

[IOPort51]

You will be a lot better at it when you are finished.

Did it come with a schematic??

 

[mtnwhlr]

I would be kicking your buddy in the butt and telling him you told me to get this now get your @$$ over and help put it in.

 

[Vick68]

I'm not happy right now with him because of this. But I was going to have to have one because the jeep didn't have any wiring to start with. It's a universal harness so it doesn't really say anything in the book.

 

[jdulmer]

You would think that it would have a diagram... You may try to find a diagram online.

 

[LIVELY5R]

I had bought a Painless Wiring Harness & it came in packaged very nice & simple since I wanted to avoid your frustration. I returned it simply because I sold my CJ5 that needed it since I was able to get a perfect CJ7 . Regardless, if I had installed it I had found another jeep I could use as a template to copy & work through any issue I encountered. See if you can return your universal kit since Summit Racing let me return mine 3 months later. If you can, go with the painless since it is all plug & play except for the engine bay which isn't finished out due to the varieties of engines in jeeps now. Find another jeep with your engine configuration to use as a template, finish your jeep, & throat-punch your "friend".

 

[Vick68]

Well I'm still basically in the same boat I was last year. I paid a guy to wire the jeep and get complete running. I trusted him I paid him half up front and other half he would get when Jeep was done. As it sits now the Jeep isn't done and I'm out 250 bucks. The jeep is just sitting in my driveway lifeless right now and I'm not sure I want to keep going with it.

 

[ksouthw80]

my opinion, dont freak yourself out, know that people in the industry get thrown to the wolves all the time. YOU CAN do this. lay out the harness and study all diagrams you can. OR buy a painless kit with preterminated ends. if you LAY it out and LEARN it YOU CAN do it. The most important thing to do is make quality connections, crimps ,solder.solder sleeves etc.. my 2 cents..PS.. does it have the fuse box?