Real time wire measurment needed.

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I am working on a 1978 FJ40 rear chassis harness, specifically the rear license lights. Can some one tell me how long the wires are that are attached to the license lights. These come from the lights, pass through rubber gromments then plug into the sub harness coming from the passenger marker light. Just need to know the length of the wire attached to the light. Im guessing 12" but want to make sure. I looked at the CCOT site but its hard to judge...
 
Ok since I got no response for this ( I know... all 78 owners were out wheeling their trucks this weekend! ) I made them 20" total length. Should someone actually measure this it would be nice for the archives.
 
I'd measure my 77 for you but mine is a hack job with a couple of crimp splices. I need to clean it up. What style connector comes from the marker light anyway?
 
On a 1977 FJ40 the OEM marker lights are simple bullet connectors. On a 1978 they are a 2 pin "T" connector on the light then to a extension harness with a weird green waterproof connector off the rear chassis harness.
 
I took on refurbishing a 1978 complete harness just to be able to document it. I put 51 hours into just the main chassis harness. That included building a jig to mount it, creating the labels for every connector, un-taping it, removing it to soda blast all the connectors, remounting it, repairing the small amount of damage to the harness, tracing out every single wire in the harness, created drawings for each and every circuit, created a build sheet (though I can never build new ones as some of the connectors are not available) tested it, then taped it back up. Did the same for the rear chassis harness but that only took about 12 hours total.

I now have documentation at that level for the 64-67, 71, 76-77 and now the 78. I have a 79 harness that is complete but it looks pretty much like a 78 but with more emissions stuff. I may mount that to my 78 board and do a quick comparison later this fall.

My next refurbish documentation project will more likely be a 72-73, or 74-75. Probably 72 as that was when Toyota made major changes to the wiring. Just guessing that the 73-75 are probably pretty similar harnesses.
 
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