Re: Wiring harness....change or not?
NOBODY, makes replacement wiring harness components that are 100% correct to the original prints! Why?
Many of the individual harness components (e.g. Packard connectors for a given era, original wire material, fuse block, Etc.) are either gone/dead (the tooling is history) or this/that material is no longer made because there's either no demand (a replacement form of plastic is cheaper/better) or its been banned by the EPA (a know carcinogen).
So, those in the business do the best they can and their products. While perhaps distinguishably different in some obscure way or another from the factory original piece, what they supply is probably more durable and BETTER than the factory original part...
You can argue LL vs. M&H vs. Eagle all day long and I don't think you'll come to a consensus. Plus, LL and M&H treat each other as WD's (warehouse distributors) and actually interchange full harness assy's as well as individual component pieces.
The reason I perfer M&H over LL is quality. I've had just TOO MANY LL harness products that were improperly built (wires striped too far back from connector ends leaving exposed copper to short, harness assy's completely missing one section or another, wires mis-routed end to end inside the harness wrap, Etc.). There's NO WAY these products got out of anybody's factory IF they were 100% inspected/tested!
How much shop labor does it take to offset the annoyance of having to pull a harness you've installed on a car that's been buttoned up, to send it back to the mfgr to honor his warranty on a $300 item?
Answer: there is no answer! It should have been RIGHT from the git go... No supplier guarantees against incidental and consequential damages.
The last straw for me with L&L was a C2 power window harness that came in with only ONE window switch connector on it! Hey, tell me how that got built, inspected, tested, and shipped to a customer????
I used to run a captive cable shop at Texas Instruments... The answer is simple: the harness was NOT inspected/tested prior to shipment!
NOBODY, makes replacement wiring harness components that are 100% correct to the original prints! Why?
Many of the individual harness components (e.g. Packard connectors for a given era, original wire material, fuse block, Etc.) are either gone/dead (the tooling is history) or this/that material is no longer made because there's either no demand (a replacement form of plastic is cheaper/better) or its been banned by the EPA (a know carcinogen).
So, those in the business do the best they can and their products. While perhaps distinguishably different in some obscure way or another from the factory original piece, what they supply is probably more durable and BETTER than the factory original part...
You can argue LL vs. M&H vs. Eagle all day long and I don't think you'll come to a consensus. Plus, LL and M&H treat each other as WD's (warehouse distributors) and actually interchange full harness assy's as well as individual component pieces.
The reason I perfer M&H over LL is quality. I've had just TOO MANY LL harness products that were improperly built (wires striped too far back from connector ends leaving exposed copper to short, harness assy's completely missing one section or another, wires mis-routed end to end inside the harness wrap, Etc.). There's NO WAY these products got out of anybody's factory IF they were 100% inspected/tested!
How much shop labor does it take to offset the annoyance of having to pull a harness you've installed on a car that's been buttoned up, to send it back to the mfgr to honor his warranty on a $300 item?
Answer: there is no answer! It should have been RIGHT from the git go... No supplier guarantees against incidental and consequential damages.
The last straw for me with L&L was a C2 power window harness that came in with only ONE window switch connector on it! Hey, tell me how that got built, inspected, tested, and shipped to a customer????
I used to run a captive cable shop at Texas Instruments... The answer is simple: the harness was NOT inspected/tested prior to shipment!
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