Picked this up in a Box Lot buyout, is it worth reading or is all the stuff subject to HAMB, rejection, revision, and possible death? Bob
Haven't I that one, looks like it's better than the one I have. Don't buy this one it's a waste of your money. Great for explaining what things due like fuses, relays etc but when it comes to actually wiring lights, wipers, etc. It's worthless.
Have that one, read it quite a while ago. My thought is, the more information you have, the better you can sift through the BS.
Tex was just the publisher, the book was written by Skip Readio who is actually an East Coast auto electrician who does wire lots of rods and customs. I think quite a few of Tex's books are no longer available as he passed away a couple of years ago.
I agree with that, I have several of his books in my "Tex Smith section of my automotive library. Still, as with any other similar book you have to take what you can actually use and just enjoy the rest.
I have that book as well as a few others on wiring.....they all add a little something to understanding what needs to be done.I also have other Tex Smith books that deal with other subjects
There are a few used copies of that book listed on Amazon. Three of them are under 20 bucks at the moment but the other ones are somewhat higher. This time being 4:21 Pacific time 9-18-17
Read the XR-6 build up as a kid, finally meet Tex at Hershey when he was editor of Old Cars Weekly. I always liked his writing style. Bob
I bought this book thirty years ago. It is formatted like a comic book. Very easy to understand and follow. No high tech stuff, just basic wiring. Takes into account different systems, one wire, three wire, GM or Ford columns. It's the only book I need http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Book-How-To-Wire-Your-Street-Rod,2824.html
met skip years ago... straightened me out on parabolic refraction... I was using sealed beams behind stock '34 truck lenses... I was bending the light twice... looked great in front of the car but the head lights had little or no distance... thanks skip !
37 kid, you have mentioned many times that you are scared of wiring. Wiring is easy and fun.Take a wire and connect it to a lightbulb. Anther wire for ground. The light comes on. Now take that same wire and put an on/off switch in the middle. Now you can turn the light on and off. Repeat many times for everything on the car and your car is wired. There is more to it like fuses but thats the basics. Its very rewarding to see that the light works and you can turn it on and off. Think of wiring a car as hooking up one wire. Then another until the entire car is wired.
The aftermarket Wiring harnesses available from places like Painless, Ron Francis, Rebel, EZ-Wire, Ourselves pretty much take any guess work out of wiring, you simply run the wires from the fuse block and attach them to their respective position in the vehicle.
^^ Got that one Why is that wiring guys have to use that line " Wiring is Easy & Fun"? I have no idea how you connect the wires you mentioned to a light bulb, or were the power comes from, were is the "Easy" part? Bob
Wiring is like zen for me, I love just taking messages for an afternoon and throwing on some hard rock on Pandora, laying upside down under a dash and going to town with wiring. This is why the LS engine harnesses I build have all the unnecessary crap removed like O2 sensors and knock sensors. I strip it down to the essentials and guys that were afraid of wiring before, suddenly like doing it. Sent from my XT1585 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
There is no way a 'kit' is going to fit my car. There will be wires left over that arent used and there will be wires needed that arent there.
I don't see how we do mainly LS engines and use 12 circuit harnesses and end up removing some stuff in most cases. Sent from my XT1585 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Ouch! BTW, you can certainly tell when that book was published by the people and willys on the cover.....love me some graphics and centerlines!
Texs' old book, "How to Build Real Hot Rods". One of my favorite go to reads every few years. I'll bet I've had it 30 years now and it never gets old.
ff Probably the best out there and the easiest to understand "Two thumbs Up! " the book like the one from the O.P. didn't show the universal kits like what are on the market today the one I had was adapting Pinto and VW fuse boxes and some GM stuff not really relevant today.
I just really can't see a need to run each wire individually and have a need for a wiring diagram, when the $150.00 you have to pay for a harness has all the hard work done for you already all you have to do is route wires and solder them into their respective terminals.
That's why he suggested you play with one light bulb, and a battery, and some wires, and see if you can make it work. It's ok to make mistakes, you learn from them. hint: the power comes from the battery. The wires get the power to the light bulb. Electricity is a "current", it flows through the wires. It needs to go from the battery, through the light bulb, and back to the other side of the battery. When we were young....we got my sister to do the battery/wire/light bulb thing. Took her a few tries, but she figured it out. Once you get that basic concept down, the rest is simple. Try it.
You need to post that in more wiring related posts here on the HAMB, EVERYTHING you said will be debated and proven false. That is the major hurdle in understanding electricity so many false statements, wire size, type of terminals and their connection methods, heck they can't even agree on weather they are amps or volts flowing around before the fire. These people clame to know what is going on, how do you think this looks to us clueless people? Bob
Just got done wiring a 49 Chevy 3100 tonight took 2 days to install and route the wires and marry them to our LS Engine harness. Sent from my XT1585 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app