Replace wire harnesses ?
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Melting Slicks
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M&H - good stuff
rewired 2 '65's with M&H product. Excellent quality.
Only minor complaint: grey wires for cluster bulbs are a bit short. I assume they meet the GM drawing, but an extra 2 inches would make installation 100% easier.
Have seen this complaint many times, including sockets popping out due to wire tension.
M&H: if you're out there, this is an opportunity for boosting customer satisfaction.
Mike
Only minor complaint: grey wires for cluster bulbs are a bit short. I assume they meet the GM drawing, but an extra 2 inches would make installation 100% easier.
Have seen this complaint many times, including sockets popping out due to wire tension.
M&H: if you're out there, this is an opportunity for boosting customer satisfaction.
Mike
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Installed all four harnesses on the '67 with Lectric Limited. Very happy with fit and quality of product. Have heard M&H is excellent quality, as well. But, to your post...original harness...absolutely replace. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen.
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Doc Rebuild doesn't make wire harnesses, and neither does any other Corvette parts vendor; two companies (M&H and Lectric Limited) make the harnesses, and dozens of Corvette parts houses sell them. Doesn't matter who sells them - they're all the same. 
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John,
In looking at M & H site I could not find where they had a complete vehicle harness kit. Do they make one or do you have to order all of the harnesses individually??
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Rewired my '67 with a Lectric Limited kit. The one thing I didn't like is that the new sockets for the dash bulbs are plastic, not metal like the originals, and did not snap into place as tightly as the original metal ones. If I were doing it over, I'd cut the metal sockets from the original wiring harness and solder them onto the new harness to get rid of the plastic sockets. Rewiring my roadster was a two-weekend job and was one of those feel-good maintenance jobs; you know your life with the car will be better for your labor. 
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old age creeps along
Another hint .. The rubber brake hoses perish from inside out .
Put in new ones if you're the least bit unsure of their age ..
These cars are soon to be eligible for a pension plan [ like many of their owners ] all the original wires etc are long past their best before date
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Drifting
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I wonder how many cars are out there that have never changed their harnesses with out ever having a problem and I wonder how many can attribute have an electrical fire due to their old original harness ?
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Larry
