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kubes40

09-08-2020 @ 12:29 PM

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If you and Jay are running in to the same issue, I have to wonder what harness you got?
Rest assured, the harness was installed the way I'd described earlier.
In '39 it crossed over on the front lip of the fuel tank. In mid- '39 that was changed to the rear cross member.
I have never had an issue with a harness being too short.
Not only am I in to my seventeenth full resto ('39 and '40 Fords), I've rewired a number of them as well. Not once have I experienced what you two describe.

Mike "Kube" Kubarth

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09-08-2020 @ 2:19 PM

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Kube,mine was not to short it was about a foot to long and I had to order an extra length wire to get my lincense plate light hooked up!

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09-08-2020 @ 2:38 PM

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No problem with the harness. Mine is installed and all is well. I think only problem is miss-communication of minor details thru these short messages.

fortyford, re your license plate wire:
I believe the license wire on the trunk lid connects to a a second wire behind the side wall liner of the trunk, and that second wire then runs down thru a hole in the floor board as described by Kube above. You will need that second wire. (on my car that wire remains the original, since it was well protected behind the trunk wall liner and is in excellent condition)

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09-08-2020 @ 3:43 PM

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Jay,there is really 3 wires for the license light in my case.There is the socket pig tail,the second wire through the trunk lid and there is the third wire going through the trunk floor that I am getting from Tyree Harris that is I think 53 Inches that is suppose to be for like 38 -48 Ford cars.Like you my harness works good and I will have to say I finally have 6.24 volts at the headlight plugs now.I still will never understand the extra loop thing.Sorry guys,I could go on and on about this license light.Kube,where do you get your wiring and how many going to the license light,I have to ask.

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09-12-2020 @ 12:21 PM

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Follow-up: It bothered me that Kube said I did not have the body loom correct, so today I went back under the car. I eliminated the extra loop of loom at the front by sliding the loom back about 2 or 3 inches. BUT...this slides the brake switch branch-out back to the frame cross member, which does not agree with Figure 4-7 in the current 1940 Ford Book, and is not what I found with the removed loom. (shows brake switch branch just aft of MC) My Rhode Island loom has what seemed like too-long brake switch wires, so having the loom branch-out point a few inches aft actually helps with that extra dangling wire.

So I am going to leave it that way for now. Some day I may get a chance to see a Kube restoration in person. If possible I'm going to slide under that car, to see how these little details should be done.

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09-12-2020 @ 3:01 PM

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Jay,I ran into the same thing with brake light wires.Mine are pretty much stretched out.I also got my other license light wire that goes from body harness up through trunk floor to trunk lid wire part # 11A-14415C(41-48 LIC LT EXT W)53 inches long,came with complete wire loom,worked perfect.

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kubes40

09-19-2020 @ 5:25 PM

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Hi guys,
I just came in from running my wiring along the frame and rear cross member. Mine fit perfectly. My one and only complaint was the wires that go to the master cylinder had incorrect ends on them. It was easy to replace them with the proper ends but in my opinion, I shouldn't have had to.

I still believe if you guys had the fitment issues you describe, your harness was not made correctly.

I got my wiring from Mike Driskell.

Mike "Kube" Kubarth

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