My first generation build

[geezer101]

I am going to recommend you get your hands on another wiring loom from a wreck and clean slate the truck. It will make your life easier and will be cheaper than a full aftermarket kit that will have a bunch of connections you will still need to modify to make it work with the factory plugs. My advice is, while you're at it - buy an aftermarket headlight adapter loom from ebay and upgrade your lights to H4 halogens. You can get them cheap enough and halogens are by far one of the best improvements you can add onto your truck -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/H4-Headlight....c100011.m1850

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FOUR-4x6-Hal....c100005.m1851 (you can get them with sexy looking black housings as well)

As for the ECM module, rip it out. It's another electrical gremlin waiting to ambush you and it's just dead weight (when it comes to competing, light = might)

[Fatmanwa]

I am going to recommend you get your hands on another wiring loom from a wreck and clean slate the truck. It will make your life easier and will be cheaper than a full aftermarket kit that will have a bunch of connections you will still need to modify to make it work with the factory plugs. My advice is, while you're at it - buy an aftermarket headlight adapter loom from ebay and upgrade your lights to H4 halogens. You can get them cheap enough and halogens are by far one of the best improvements you can add onto your truck -

http://www.ebay.com/itm/H4-Headlight....c100011.m1850

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FOUR-4x6-Hal....c100005.m1851 (you can get them with sexy looking black housings as well)

As for the ECM module, rip it out. It's another electrical gremlin waiting to ambush you and it's just dead weight (when it comes to competing, light = might)

Thanks for the tip Geezer! I actually did visit a junkyard yesterday in hopes of finding some parts, but they must have just cleared the row that listed an 85 truck. There is another yard farther away that has an 87, not sure it will still be there when I get the chance to take a look at it. Do you think a wire harness from any truck would work well?

[Fatmanwa]

Here are some pictures of the truck during the Gambler 500. If you go to Instagram and look up FATMANWA, I have a couple videos there.

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[geezer101]

btw, that looks like a heap of fun!

[Fatmanwa]

btw, that looks like a heap of fun!

It was one of the best weekends I have ever had.

I ordered a similar headlight kit from amazon for the headlights. I am going to be on the look out for a first gen truck to pull the wire harness and just get a good idea on what things "should" look like. I do need to figure out how to pull the dash off.