Wire for wiring loom

Roro

Roro

The really perverted one amongst us
Hey guys, I want to make a new wiring loom because mine is in very poor condition, I am relocating a lot of parts to the tail and I want to use weather-pac connectors throughout. I've looked for days, but can't find anyone who sells bundles of different colored cable - ideally I would like to keep the OEM coloring for everything. That's 28 different colors

I've visited several local auto electricians and all the local stores but they keep no more than a dozen colors loose or entire rolls of anything I want ordered in. DIYAutotune sell bundles, but these are all labelled for EFI

Anyone know where I can get a kit?
 
Try a home appliances scrapper. I just gutted a washing machine and scavenged the wiring for spares. Lots of colour combos. Or visit a local bike shop, they usually have boxes of old harnesses for cheap.
 
I used Ancor marine wire. It's great quality wire, comes in a lot of colors and gauges. You'll never find the 20 different colors your wiring diagram refers to. You can run a black sharpie along the wire to double up the variety, kind of like what the stock wiring is like.

I did my XS650 custom wiring in the 16ga marine wire and have been very happy with it. Not cheap - if you want cheap, rip out wiring from a junkyard car or bike and source the wire from that.
 
If you're making a custom loom, you don't need all 1253354 different colors that come stock. My old cb350 had a custom harness and I was able to get the harness down to about 10 wires.
 
Finding an adequate selection of wire colors is a long-running frustration for me. Rarely is there more than a dozen colors. Pacer has 14 colors of fine strand wire.
pacergroup.net

I once had a bookmark for a supplier that had a MUCH greater selection of colors, but they disappeared.
 
DCC has some striper (ie White/Black) in quite a few colors. I think if you wan't original colors it will take several orders to different suppliers. You could find out who makes the wire and then contacrt them directly.
 
BIG E said:
DCC has some striper (ie White/Black) in quite a few colors.
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That's terrific! They have 19 colors! They say they have 20 colors, but I counted 19. It's not the same quality of fine strand tinned wire that Tim pointed to. Still, it's pretty reasonably priced. They are 13' lengths, which is enough for a wiring project. I am looking for a source of 100' spools as a shop supply.
 
AlphaDogChoppers said:
That's terrific! They have 19 colors! They say they have 20 colors, but I counted 19. It's not the same quality of fine strand tinned wire that Tim pointed to. Still, it's pretty reasonably priced. They are 13' lengths, which is enough for a wiring project. I am looking for a source of 100' spools as a shop supply.
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Have you talked to DCC. Maybe they can hook you up to their supplier, or at least come up with a larger spool?
 
Check out TerminalSupplyCo I used them to outfit my entire FSAE shop back at school over the summer. Lee is very helpful and she is very nice. Also I don't think there is a minimum order but they can get you what you need in 100" rolls. I bought all automotive GLX wiring, very good stuff!

Or if you want stuff for one project, go get a car wiring harness, plenty of wire with different colors at junk yard prices!!!

-Chris
 
That looks like a really good supplier. Still only 14 colors listed, but they said they might have products that are not listed. It makes it a lot easier to extend handlebar control wiring when you have wires that match what is already there. Many wires on bikes are not solid colors.

They have some interesting "kits." A whole rack of wires with an assortment of connectors.
 
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