[DeTomaso] Wiring harness for 72 pantera

[Jeff Detrich]

Once it's out of the car you can lay it on a big table for inspection, take
apart the taped sections to look for bad stuff, test, clean, fix and add
enhancements for relays, ground and such, retape and it'll go back in a lot
easier than a non-stock one. Everything will be in the right place and the
original wiring diagram will still work.

I'm curious what you all would enhance once it's out. Would be nice to have
a comprehensive list of must do's and other optional changess for the next
time any of us have ours out. One I heard recently here was to have a plug
for all guages so it would be easy to get the center guage panel apart.

Jeff
6559.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:05 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 1/16/13 11 49 19, lwall67 at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> >
> > I also know that several of the members of this list forget more in a day
> > than I will ever know about Pantera electronics and would love to hear
> > their
> > thoughts.  If any of you know a better solution I would love to hear that
> > as
> > well.
> >
>
> >>>Just curious--what is inspiring the replacement of your existing
> harness?   I replaced my stock '72 harness with a stock '74 harness
> because it
> seemed to be a reasonable thing to do at the time, as a few wires had
> burned on
> my original harness due to previous owner buffoonary.   But in retrospect
> it
> was a lot of work for not much gain, and I would have been smarter to just
> repair those sections that needed work and leave the rest alone.
>
> There are a couple of philosophical flaws with certain elements of the
> car's stock wiring scheme (headlight and fan circuits specifically), but
> bolt-on
> or DIY solutions are available to simply deal with those without disturbing
> the rest.
>
> Unless your car was parked underwater, I find it difficult to see
> justification for the work and expense of replacing the entire harness, so
> I'm
> interested to hear your perspective?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
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