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Differences in 76 and 77 chassis harnesses?


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I have a 76 chassis wiring harness (or maybe a 75, can't recall) and I'm curious what are the differences on it and the 77 harness (my car is a 77 5 speed)? Mine has some pretty bad spots where previous owners tried to re-engineer what Nissan did years ago and it didn't turn out so well. I thought about using an EZ Wiring kit but that would require some fancy work getting combo switches and things to work. However, if the other harness I have is good and clean, no screwed up wires or anything, I might just use it and get all the connections good and tight and make sure all my grounds are good and clean and just rewire it. It'd be a lot easier considering all the plugs would be good and wires the right length to lay correctly under the carpet.

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I need the part that runs into the engine bay and into the cabin before it branches off into subharnesses for the dash and rear of the car, and has the fuse panel in it. I say subharnesses because I wouldn't imagine they'd use one whole harness to do all of that, but I could be wrong. I know there are some differences, just not quite sure if it's only in plug styles/shapes, or if other circuits were added to later years, or relays were set up in different ways or whatever.

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I know there are definately differences between my 78 and 76 especially in the FI harness, also part of the front lighting, underhood relay chassis, AC wiring, etc. harness coming through the passenger side firewall. Also the FI fuel pump relays are located in different places if I remember right.

Greg

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Well my FI harness is ok for now, just redoing the chassis. I'm not sure if I'm going to stay stock, go turbo motor, or v8 so I'm not touching the FI one yet. I guess I need to find a good 76 wiring diagram so I can see the colors and sorta match them up with mine. I'm not going to be using A/C, just the bare minimum stuff I have to use. If I can't find a good deal on a 77 harness I guess I can make my 76 one work.

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Thanks. It's hard to decide, I've had ZERO cash offers, and a bunch of trade offers for stuff I'm not interested in. I figure if I sell it, if it has intact wiring then it'll be easier to sell. And if I keep it, much better for me afterwards, becuase of better wiring :)

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Thanks for the emails Greg. I looked at that 75 harness, even if the wires aren't all mauled and chewed up, I'm not putting that thing in my car. I think I would rather just balls up and get the aftermarket kit and solder everything to the connection it's going to. Great connection with new wires is probably the best way to go.

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The biggest difference I can see is with the FI Harness, your other harness may be good to swap, the 77 had more relays where the fuseable links are located but that should be easy to figure out.

Hope the diagrams helped some.

Greg

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