DIY Wiring For Any Vehicle! (Almost)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ม.ค. 2023
- I'm working on my Double Dually Mutt Truck project, and I need to wire the whole thing up. I decided to try the whole system on a table to make it easier to see and work out the bugs. That was a good idea, because not everything went as planned.
Part prices I show are the price at the time I bought them, it will probably change! Links for the Nilight stuff below:
Fuse Boxes:
www.amazon.com/dp/B089T47R2L
LED Taillights:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0841GJZ96
Mini LED lights:
www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBB7G1J - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
If every school in America had a teacher like this guy to teach basic mechanical skills to our youth then this country would be much better. This guy would make an amazing shop teacher!! Awesome video!! Everyone should watch this!
Well...yes he would until the play back his videos and all the jury-rigged contraptions 🙂 (don't try this at home kids)
*- Agreed.*
They used to. Then the school districts pushed as hard as they could for everyone to go to college, because the schools would get more money for students who moved onto college. When I got into high school back in 2008, they got rid of our auto shop & metals teacher to replace them with more arts classes. I was lucky enough to get into working on cars as a child & taught myself pretty much everything from TH-cam, believe it or not! 2 years after I graduated, I was making almost $50k a year. Had a really nice vehicle and my own place that was a rental, but still.
HS now set up a majority of their students for failure because I believe that not everyone is meant to go to college. We need to bring back trade classes!
@@TheTulerie agreed .! Stay away from the commy liberal brainwashing institutes .
Kids all over the world that like to tinker have James as a shop teacher now! Video plays in any time zone and it's up forever now.
*- Really good show and tell tutorial, James. Thank you.*
*- Being a good teacher comes naturally to you. That is a rare thing.*
This is hands down one of the best informative videos I have ever seen on youtube. Excellent way to visualise the concept, you could adapt this to rewire a classic aircooled porsche easily.
The 3 prong flasher is what we called (back in the 70's and early 80's) a self leveling flasher. The extra ground ran a separate, for lack of a better term, self resetting circuit breaker, which in turn controlled a relay which actually ran the turn signals. They were recommended for trucks pulling a trailer with the extra load from the trailer lights to keep them from blinking super fast. No matter how many lights were hooked to it (within the limit of the relay amp capacity) the turn signals flashed at the same speed.
Thanks for the info!
@@LowBuckGarage might want to get a wiring harness from a vega or other H body car, simple wired for GM alt has turn signals and headlights already mocked up we stripped them from the junkers before we took them to yard and got 45 bucks at swap meets even with switches
What a great simplistic lesson on how wiring works in most vehicles. Even modern vehicles use same principles.
Still one of the best on TH-cam . Great information well presented.
This hands down the best automobile electric, diagnostic, video I've ever seen.
Great videos I am a 68 year old country boy pretty handy at fixing things but I love your videos easier for me to understand common problems, keep up the very informative videos.
For me, 73 slicker!
I'm 39, bumpkin
What a excellent demonstration breaking it down to it's simplest components this was a great demonstration thank you
Ohh, I LIKE the buzzer on the motocycle flasher. As I've gotten older (and as my older car has gotten louder) I need a noise to remind me to turn off the turn signal instead of driving down the interstate for 30 or 40 miles with my turn signal still on.
I really like this video. I felt like I was in a classroom again. Clear and fun to watch. Thank You.
Love this channel. Wish we were neighbors. We would have s a ball
Well Maybe just me. You are already having fun.
That would be a fun neighborhood to drive through anytime a person needs inspiration.
Another modern safety addition is the flashing side marker lights. If you wire your (2 filament) turn signal fixture ground wire to the positive of the marker lamp, then ground the marker lamp normally.
The side marker will dim and brighten, providing a side visible turn indicator!
I discovered this trick used one of my cars from my youth, after wrapping tinfoil around a blown fuse to get me home.
Instead I melted the entire rear wiring harness.
I learned a great deal about automotive wiring that week!
About a month ago I had a little issue with electrical myself. Was fixing my brothers mower, the issue was electrical, managed to narrow it down to the starter. Checked online for a replacement starter, that shit was like 200 bucks (which wasn't in my budget), so I cracked the starter open to see exactly what the issue was. Turns out, all the springs that press the brushes into the starter were rusted to pieces. So I looked online, found a brush replacement kit for only 8 bucks, and that included the springs. Learned a lot in the process about starters, solenoids, fuses, and tracking down issues with a multimeter. Needless to say, I learned a hell of a lot more since watching this video. Thanks for the upload!
Great demonstration! Really broke it down to the basics. Thank you!
Ok that has got to be the best and most concise wiring front to back for older vehicles that I have seen (don't know if I have ever seen another one though). The visual training goes a long way in my book.
I found your channel a few weeks ago. I have enjoyed several of your videos. This one is an excellent presentation of basic automotive electrical circuits. I appreciate the sensible approach you take with a bit of fun thrown in. Keep up the good work.
Awesome display , I was never shown that when I was in school many years ago … nice work
I'm gonna watch this another 3 times even though it is a little different in Australia due to separate blinker bulbs in behind amber lenses on rear of cars. Nonetheless best video I've seen on this subject and very very educational
@Low Buck Garage:
Remind me to continue using old-fashioned dependable light bulbs.
Everything works great, and fewer wires, great inventions like combination brake/tail/ signal lights in one bulb!
Whooda thunkit!😁
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Ich wünschte ich hätte sowas Früher gesehen. vor 40 jahren etwa, als ich noch zur Schule ging! Absolut FUNTASTISCH! Und das Beste: Ich habe tatsächlich alles verstanden, sogar als es etwas komplizierter wurde mit mehr bauteilen. So macht das alles richtig Sinn und Spass! Danke für das Video!
This video is awesome! Is going to come very handy since all the basics are here.
The only thing I would’ve like to know is how to determine the proper gauge of wire needed for different applications like: electric fans, headlights, etc..
Best LED flasher to use for regular 4 to 6 light connections I've personally found out are cheap Chinese motorcycle adjustable speed LED flashers! 3 wires I believe and a slotted Pot to adjust for the individual loads of whatever or how many LED lights your running? They're usually under 5 dollars each! And they have all worked out from my personal experience with them 👍Hopefully someone finds this useless information useful? Just passing it forward Lol!
Thanks for the info! I'll pick one of those up and try it out.
Thank you for the tutorial on basic wiring. I am building a 47 Willys this information has come in very handy considering I have all LED lights. At least I think I got the right flasher keep up the great videos. You have a great attitude towards rebuilding old stuff old cars don’t need to be perfect. They just need to run and you could have some fun in them. Thanks again.
Those are good boxes. I rewired an old tractor completely with they. It had lots of accessories and far more lights than a car. One half was on and one half was switched. There was no "acc" position. The fuses also had a light that came on if it blew. Couldn't miss a bad fuse. Good demo. I like your able. One thing you could add to the headlight circuit. OK, two I guess. Some are fused and some have a breaker in the factory switch. The latter can cause problems if you switch to lights that draw more current. You need to use a relay then. I guess the same is true of fuses. The stock wiring can't handle more current. DIY wiring can use heavier wire, thus eliminating that problem.
Excellent visualization…you might want to introduce a master(primary disconnect switch) into your well done 12 v mockup, there’s a lot of potential for parasitic voltage draw as a person adds more devices especially true on old vehicles. Even with new parts that are poorly made, I had a new Echlin brake switch that functionally worked while pressing the brake pedal but had a defective habit of leaving the plunger partially engaged w/o activating the brake lights. I narrowed it down to a very weak plunger spring that created just enough pressure to draw a tiny amount of current and killed the battery within a week. Note: numerous car stereos will do this too even if the head unit display is blank as the internal ram will use millivolts to electronically retain stored radio presets and the time display for when they’re booted back up. So I installed a master disconnect switch so absolutely no current is drawn while not being used.
Well, all ya need is a steering wheel, tires, drive train and your ready to go for a ride! Awesome table build if I ever seen one... Lol
Joking aside I did the same thing to my Zero Turn lawnmower. I live on a highway and I wanted light and flasher's so the idiot drivers can see me mowing .
It had no light at all. I added headlight, tail lights, flasher and turn signals just like he did in the video. I had to use a flasher for Led's as well. The guy next door thought I was nuts until he seen a car slow down as it passed... Awesome!
Thanks for the cool video!
LLAP 🖖
This channel is soo awesome and funny should have at least 300.000 subscribers
i'd say over half of all starter issues can be traced to a bad connection of some type, and if left unattended will eventually cause a starter to overheat and fail. i didn't really learn anything new here, but it was interesting nonetheless. i've wired up many projects from scratch from tractors and trucks to cars and motorcycles, including a dozen v-dub sandrails i built from tack welded kit frames i bought from sandrail magazine back in the early 90's. you did an excellent job describing how the entire electrical system works, and i will direct anyone asking me how to do it to this vid because i don't have the patience anymore to explain it to a noob.
An excellent episode. I know I developed my mechanical skills better when I was shown how things worked. Thanks for sharing.
this is THE video for wiring for beginners. great video
Ive been fixing car electrics for over 50 years, but even I have learned a thing or two here, especially with the LED stuff.
Many thanks.
David in the U.K.
Seven wire switch, stepchild of a German Enigma machine
Great video.. hint for making LEDs work with the two wire flashers or electronic flashers if they don't flash. Add a resistor from the output side of the flasher to ground, this makes it think there is a greater load then just the LEDs connected to it. They sell load resistors for this purpose when you want to install LEDs into older vehicles, but instead of putting them on each light I just put one at the flasher so there is always enough load to trigger it.
i think this is the best 101 car wiring i have ever seen, exelent video my dude
I went through a similar ordeal with the flasher on my jeep YJ when I converted to LEDs. At first I did just LED tail lights with the stock incandescent front marker lights. With this setup one of those "LED compatible" two prong flashers worked fine. Once I converted to all LEDs though, it would just stay on. To keep the two prong setup without using a load resistor, I used a part number EF32RLNP flasher. It has the same two prong form factor, but also a ground wire that comes out of the case. Works great and they are inexpensive.
Thanks for the info!
Thank you for teaching me basic car electric system Uncle Low-Buck. Now whenever i use this informations in my future, i will remember you with great respect.
3 terminal flashers in cars were used to flash the side marker lights (new requirement around 1970) during the "off" period of the turn signal lights. Turn signal light would be on while side marker light was off, turn signal light would be off while side marker light was on. In the 80s they let auto manufacturers do a wraparound turn signal lens instead of requiring a separate side marker light. 87 and 87A on the Bosch relay were the "activation" for the relay, you would feed V+ to 87, or ground to 87a to turn the relay on. The ground trigger was for things like a horn switch, where the button on the column grounds out to turn on the horn relay to activate the horn.
I've got to hand it to you, you did a fantastic job of simplifying something that's always seemed complicated to me. You're an awesome mechanic and you do some great work.👍✌️🇺🇲
This video is absolutely amazing. It reveals everything that today's novice drivers need to pass automobiles 101. It shoul be compulsory viewing for eery teen wanna-be driver.
Nice, thorough explaination of automotive elecrical systems, including some potential "gotcha's"! Thanks for the video!
Where were you in 1974 when I was learning all this by burning stuff up? But still having fun so i musta been doing it right! Excellent upload!
Damn. I’m rewiring. Your awesome. Love your attitude. Inspiring.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I have an '85 Bronco that I need to rewire. I've been confused as where to start. This helps immensely!!
Awesome sauce, have worked on old cars for many years, had i a teacher like this man when i was young i could have done so much more as i understand,,, perfectly,
Thank you for this, is wonderful!
Love it! I just found your channel last week and I've watched 15 videos already. Do you ever sleep? You accomplish a crazy amount of work. This was a perfect video. Next one should cover gauges perhaps. Great job explaining and I love your very subtle dry humor. I'm hooked on your channel.
And you didnt even get shocked!! Great video again, well presented for even the slowest student in the class, me! thanks
Thank you very much for explaining this issue….. I have an old VW and I am always trying to figure out wiring
..absolutely best tutorial I have ever watched! Thank you so much.
Thanks for the best presentation on wiring I have seen. Thanks, entertaining and a great watch.
That's a really good demonstration of a vehicles electric supply.
Always a pleasure watching your antics and unique jalopys .
I'm def watching this over and over again thank you
you are a hero man, i tell you this is exactly what i needed. I need to rebuild my entire Wiring harness on my 76 ford. It will be pretty simple but due to me beeing a learnd truck driver not an electrican i needed a point an a guidance which you just gave me. This is awesome and im sooooooo thankful to you for making the video, also this si very good explained.
Greetings From Germany!
Great bit of knowledge transfer.
Good job on not letting the magic smoke out👍🏻😄
This has helped me a bunch! I watched this to see if it could help, and i was surprised to see someone on youtube could explain all this well enough. To be fair, i really was just looking for motivation to start wiring my car. It's daunting sometimes thinking how much im going to have to do! Just wanted to say thanks again! Will definitely share with other friends for their builds!
Need to clean up some piss poor wiring in a Jeep this spring and I needed this video. (Previous owner liked using nineteen colors of wire interchangeably to patch broken or grounded wiring by the looks of it). I have the ignition figured out, and it charges, but I did not know how to interpret the sealed beams on the front and now I know I will probably need a different flasher to get the replacement tail lights to work. Appreciate you laying out everything in layman's terms, now I just need to spend money on cool switches and relays.
Wow! Came looking for copper, found gold!!!
Thank you you just helped me fix my headlight low and high beams 11:09
This is a great video, I’d like to see something like this occasionally in addition to your normal content 💪 Great explanatory video!
That's a top-shelf video right there.
Thanks a lot.
I am not good with vehicle electrics, but i could apply this to my motorbikes.... if I knew what components I was actually looking at when looking at the bike.
Thanks for the demo. Like you, I am old school. I don't need my ECM, TCM, or any of those other CM families of electronics.
Could it possibly be the indicator for your hazards noticed a little red button under the lever thought maybe thats the push pull button for the hazards like the 70s 80s Mopars. Great video as always learned a good bit from you so far. Would like to see more on the dodge ram half-trac. Looking forward to more videos
Wiring has always been tough subject for me. Your explanation from basic start to end was excellent. You are a great teacher, and Thank you for taking the time and effort you put forth. This video is one of the best on the net, and have saved it for future reference for my son and myself. Thank you James. Great job!
very nice video. i like simple. i've made wiring for several vehicles, 3 cars (unimog) and 2 bikes. the unimogs were diesel, so thats simple to start with. then i used only 1 fusebox, always connected to the battery. i also fitted a heavy duty battery cut off switch. so if i switched off the engine, everything still had electricity; when i left the car i switched off the battery switch and everything was dead, you could not forget lights or anything. worked fine. and of course, i used rear light units with seperate rear light/brake light/indicator.
you can get a relay that will mimic load when using LED lights that takes some of the gremlins out of components that aren't working correctly because of low draw
Curt makes an adapter for trailer light connection from the euro cars with separate turn and brake lights. It works great for fixing the brake turn problem
Now you tell me!
Excellent, so interesting even for old mechanics, and the wife liked it, your good brother, your good. Thanks for sharing, best channel on yt. Cheers.
Good explanation for basic wiring
Great video. Wiring has always been a mystery to me and this helps a great deal. Appreciate the trouble you went to. Thank you
In Europe, Australia and many other countries, we by law need to have separate rear indicating lights. Been many study’s that having yellow (Amber) turn lights reduces the amount of rear end crashes. Something to do with the way us humans are wired ;)
I’ve imported a few Mustangs into Australia, we use to have to convert the rear wiring to amber indicators. Most Australian states finally accept red indicators.
Greetings from Maine where rust never sleeps .That was brilliant ! You have the best comments too.
I added more small incandescent bulbs to the turn circuit to help with the LED problem on my 62 C50.
I just tucked them into the front clearance lights.
You did a great job of laying out the basics.
Your videos are great.
You would be a great Auto Shop teacher...
your a dam genius gump very good job at teaching my friend
This is such a good video for anyone just getting into the hobby. Really easy to understand.
When the bed on my pickup rotted out I replaced it with a aluminum body that had led lights. The blinkers flashed real fast because the system didn’t detect current draw and thought a light was burned out. It’s legal like that but it was aggravating. They sell expensive flasher for use with leds but I’m like you, cheap. I bought a cheap heavy duty flasher, I think 4 or 5 bucks and it works fine.
This might be the most informative TH-cam video I’ve ever watched. Thank you for sharing 👍
I have no idea what your vocation is, but if you're not in education, you missed your calling :) In 43 minutes, you made all of this make sense. I'm 74 and never really understood how the auto electrical system worked. Thanks!
I wish I had seen something like this sooner. 40 years ago, when I was still at school! Absolutely FUNTASTIC! And the best thing: I actually understood everything, even when it got a little more complicated with more components. In this Order it all makes sense and is fun! Thanks for the video!
👏👏👏👏👏 amazing job!! Very thorough!!! I needed this video very badly!!
I made it to my mid fifties never really understanding the concept of relays, other than you needed them. Thanks for explaining it so clearly 🇦🇺
I put low buck garage on the same stellar plane as mustie1 and shango666. really fun how to fix cool old stuff videos.
Such a great demonstration this is probably going to help a lot of people pretty cool man...
Brilliant explanation. I didn’t recognise why you needed a diode at first because I’ve never seen one in an Australian car but then I remembered that US vehicles don’t have orange turn signals on the back like we do here. I’ve always wondered why, cost saving perhaps.
Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
I migrated to your site from Cold War Motors. Keep up the good work! It is neat to see the tooling my grandpa's generation used to work on their cars.
Great video! This is my type of learning
Thanks for sharing
Great basic automotive wiring video. You also did a great job explaining relays. They can be used for most applications
The blue wire goes to the terminal "P" on the 3 pins flasher "X" "P" "L"... Or 2 Pins Terminal "L" on an Solid State flasher or a Bi-Metallic Thermal flasher "An excellent episode."
Really good video and applicable to many applications. Thanks for posting.
I really enjoy watching your videos
Really like how you take the basics and then a few steps further to bridge generations. Thanks for the original content.
25:31 if you want to do away with the motorcycle flasher so you do not have the buzzer sound, you can also use a simple cycle timer with infinite loop that cycles as long as the unit receives power, such as the ddc-432. They run off of 12v dc, you can select the time the light stays on and the time it stays off by 0.1 second increments.
these timers can be gotten for less than $5 each.
What an excellent teaching video ! Thanks for sharing !
I feel like a more complete person having watched this.
You went to a lot of great effort on this video. Bet you are exhausted somewhat. Great reference for all would-be auto electricians.
Keep them coming, man👍
This is a very well done video, congrats on quality and content.
This kind of content shouldn't be free of charge. Thanks man!