Redoing wiring harness

[drcox99]

Hi all,
I’ve decided to embark on figuring out the wiring on my 1976 reliant scimitar, as it was sat for 7 years and I could all sorts of foul things in it when I first got it.
The car is going to be a street/ strip car so bare basics with a few comfets, I’ve just ripped the whole wiring loom out and I’m on the fence whether to make my own loom from scratch with a fuse box and a few breakers, but the actual wires inside the loom look in really good nick, the exposed parts not so much.
Am I better off stripping out the wires that arnt needed and recovering the loom? Or building a new one, and what would be involved for each, obviously stripping the existing is easier so is it worth making a new one?
Thanks in advance

[drcox99]

That’s the thing I’m not super knowlageable on how I would even go about making a new loom but I would like the added peace of mind knowing it is all new and having distribution blocks and a fuse panel

[drcox99]

If I made a new one I would use the original colours of the car so I could still use the diagram, and the grounds are mostly destroyed so I’m gonna need to reground everything anyways, somehow

[drcox99]

Whatsmyname said:

drcox99 said:

That’s the thing I’m not super knowlageable on how I would even go about making a new loom but I would like the added peace of mind knowing it is all new and having distribution blocks and a fuse panel

Use the existing loom to make a peg board jig.

That’s what I was hoping to do, what’s the best way of doing that? Just straight up rip the current loom apart?

[drcox99]

And yes all the large clips look in good condition so I can reuse them and small connectors I have replacements for

[drcox99]

Thanks that’s exactly what I was looking for!
There are little blocks on some of the wires hat I have to assume are relays, I’ll take some pictures this evening.
I’ve seen a lot of the race cars have a board with relays, fuse block and distribution block, how would I go about integrating this new loom into something like that?

[drcox99]

Yeah I think I am gonna split it into smaller chunks using plugs

Anyone have a clue what these are? And if they’re imperative as I would have no clue where to find new ones

[drcox99]

I couldn’t really read the writing, but that cluster goes to the windscreen wipers as far as I can tell

[drcox99]

That plug is for the windscreen wipers controls,
Supressor? Just googled it, they are only nescisary if you want to use AM radio which I don’t, am I right?

[drcox99]

Not really, but I want speakers, Bluetooth