[DeTomaso] Wiring harness for 72 pantera

[Will Kooiman]

By the way, you do not need to cut the wires to get them out.

The outer cover on mine was very hard.  I had to split it to make it
pliable enough to remove the wires - just for the front of the car.  But I
was going to do that anyway.

If you have a shell, you can probably remove the harness without splitting
it.

The wires going through the passengers sill were very easy to remove (for
me).

Reinstallation was easy too, but you need to thread a "cable pull" first.
I used a thick wire for the pull, pushed it through the door jamb/sill,
and then taped the harness to the other end.  It took about 15 minutes to
get it where I wanted it.

Changes I made:

1.  Jon Haas fuse box, window/headlight controller, ignition switch
bypass, radiator fan controller.
2.  Removed seatbelt buzzer wiring
3.  Moved battery to the engine compartment (which cleans up the front
trunk, but it also avoids a lot of wiring)
4.  Removed starter relay - using mini starter, which has a relay built in.
5.  Modern alternator, so no external voltage regulator, and I removed
that wiring.
6.  Thomas Tornblom fuel gauge linearizer
7.  Hidden wires in the rear - routed through the wheel well instead of
the engine compartment.
8.  I ran the fuel tank wires through the driver's sill, so there is no
need for wires on the firewall above the distributor.
9.  Space City Pantera LED upgrade
10.  CIBIE headlights - recommended by Mike Drew - I like the frog eye
look.
11.  Autometer electronic speedo - so there are wires from the ZF instead
of a cable.
12.  Wires that had issues were replaced with new wires of the correct
color.
13.  Checked the ground under the dash.  I did not do a second ground, but
I guess I could have.
14.  I installed 2 lugs on the firewall for switched and unswitched power.
15.  I welded a bolt to the frame near the passenger's motor mount.  I am
using that as an engine ground instead of the one on the rear of the ZF.
I did that to clean up the engine compartment.
16.  I plan on cleaning up the gauge wiring, but I have deferred that
until after I have my car on the road.
17.  I plan on installing a stereo, but it won't be traditional.  I am
leaning towards an iPod/iPhone jack straight into an amplifier.  I never
listen to radio anyway, so I don't need a "normal" radio head.  The wiring
will be in the console, with a jack near the back (closest to the engine).
 I'm going to build a cover to hide it all.

I think that's it, but I know as soon as I hit <send>, I'll think of
something else.



On 1/16/13 5:55 PM, "Jeff Detrich" <jjdetrich at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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