Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2015/10/27 10:17:59

I thought about the hot rod wiring harness, but to be honest I would have no clue how to hook that up. with the original it would be a no brainer and everything would just be like original, down to the colors. I even already have harness tape I bought ages ago.

I know that KevinAz did the hot rod harness, but he had someone do it for him.

sometimes its hard for me to think outside the box and I need laid out instructions. if someone had done this already with the hot rod harness and documented it...I'd probably go that way. wiring has never been my forte, but I can follow directions pretty well.

I found all the wiring I would need in the proper form (gxl and txl either way) and color for under 100 bucks. just need to find all of the terminals that aren't the cheap crap Chinese ones.

I also found the bulb terminals, just use brass rivets of the right diameter. grind them down to size and crimp them on. I found a few forum posts on a mustang site where a guy did that with great results and super cheap.

I did call around to a few of the harness repo companies and they wanted anywhere from 600-1700 to do it. 600 was an estimate from one that had never done a Packard harness yet. that was just for the dash/engine harness. did not include the rear harness.


Thanks for the thoughts on the radio. I'll have to look to see what wire you are talking about. I know that I had the 3 prong wire plug in to the side of the speaker setup, but I didn't notice any other wires except the single power wire

I had the antennae plugged in and I stuffed a piece of wire in the end of it in a loop. then I ground the wire on the side of the antennae cable. it didn't help and I'm sure I didn't do it right.

but either way the radio, wiring, and the tubes etc....they are really shady looking and I wouldn't trust it to not spontaneously combust one day. its not worth AM radio. I'm also guessing its about 400-500 or more to send it off and have it repaired....again not worth it to me. the only noise I heard was from the back side where all the tubes, etc are. the speaker was completely silent.