Classic Truck Performance

WORRY-FREE WIRING

For many classic truck fans there is nothing more mysterious than an electrical system. After all, how can you understand something you’ve never seen—that is unless you’ve walked across carpeting in your socks, grabbed a door knob, and saw a spark. Of course you don’t have to see electricity to know it exists—if you’ve been zapped by the ignition system of a running engine you know it’s real.

Because of the theoretical nature of electricity it can be hard to know where to start when replacing a dilapidated old wiring harness or wiring a truck from scratch. At one time

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