Installing an American Autowire Classic update wiring harness

John Collins said

I went through the items you suggested and purchased them all, except for the wire strippers. I have an old version that works great. I was on the fence about the AA crimping tools, but pulled the trigger after reading similar thoughts on multiple threads. I’d rather pay up front for something that is proven effective. At this point, I’m so far in with the harness and all the other aspects needed, that not paying the extra few bucks for the exact tool needed to perform the job at hand that I’m already $1500 in to seems like a bad idea. I’ve already failed really hard at doing it “my” way/the cheap wrong way that I don’t care about saving money when it’s only a couple percent on top of the pile. Thank you again!

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No problem!

That’s basically why I bought the AA tools. I read enough in a few of the other threads here and talked to a couple guys that knew better than me to figure out that I could probably find cheaper crimpers that would work, but, I also might screw it up and buy the wrong kind because this isn’t really my area expertise. And after all was said and done I’d spent enough on the harness I might as well get the tools from them. They probably make a lot of money on those tools because of that!

AA has a YouTube channel where they have videos on a bunch of their products, the ones on how to make a proper crimp are definitely worth watching. I’d done some wiring before but the videos were super helpful. They also have all of their instructions on their website in PDF form to download. They include the printed instructions for each part of the harness with the harness too but I found the PDF’s helpful as well.

I’d never done a full harness replacement/upgrade like this, but the AA instructions and videos made it pretty easy. You just have to lay out one section of harness at a time and work through it step by step and try not to be in a hurry