Anyone know of a chart or some source to correlate cloth wiring color coding to tracer style? The color codes are listed on the wiring diagrams, so they are easy to come by. However there are several tracer styles used in the Ford cloth wiring that I can see. There is a single straight tracer, a double straight tracer, a single cross tracer and a Ford 50/50 tracer patterns (there may be more, but these are the ones I am seeing). What I am trying to figure out is for say a headlight wire, I know the color coding is Red with Black tracer and Green with a Black tracer, but do not know (for sure) the tracer patterns. This is just an example, I need the tracer patterns for all of the wiring to make up a complete harness.
Try Vintage Wiring of Maine. They build complete harnesses and may have a source. www.vintagewiringofmaine.com
Talked to Road Island Wiring today, and they are sending me what they have (which isn't much per them). Think the issue is the information is somewhat proprietary to any of the harness builders and their not excited about giving it out. They are in the business of selling harnesses, which would work fine except I am attempting to build a costume harness that does not match up with any given stock harness. I am wanting to match the wiring color coding and tracer style to the wire function in a stock harness, but the lengths and locations will not match up. Anyway, I'm still looking. You would think that type of information would be available somewhere. If I had a stock harness it would be easy to figure out. All of the harness pieces I have are so faded that you can not tell a thing.
Vintage Wiring of Maine looks interesting, if I have to end up having it made they look like a good source. I am an Electrical Engineer and spent a lifetime designing cockpit instrument layouts and wiring. So I was wanting to do this project myself, but as scarce as the information appears to be that may not be happening!
I don't understand what's so difficult? You want to make your own harness, converting a car with plastic wire to cloth. The plastic wire is designated "red w/black stripe", so just make your replacement cloth wire "red w/black single tracer". Two stripes = two tracers. There are actually a whole lot more variations of tracers than stripes, so it should be easy to pick something that won't get mixed up from one circuit to the next. Sometimes when building hot rods you need to make stuff up as you go along.
Yep, I agree. Was just attempting to match original function of wire to original tracer patterns, but about ready to throw in the towel and just create/select my own tracer patterns. It's not that big an issue, just thought there might be a reference floating around. I would guess very few people would know the difference anyway!
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