53 OD harness

Kdancy

looking for an overdrive wire harness that I can purchase or use to duplicate one for a 53 Hudson.

Park_W

Rhode Island Wiring has them. www.riwire.com. They do excellent work . . . both my OD equipped Hudsons have their wiring harnesses.

DocHornet

It's a pretty simple harness, and the wiring schematic in the Hudson Shop Manual is very complete. There are just 3 wires going back to the tranny itself (2 to the O/D Solenoid and 1 to the governor), then some simple wiring between the relay on the firewall and the kickdown switch. You're probably looking at about $20 worth of wire and harness covering.

Why not just purchase a supply of period-style wire in several colors (ideally corresponding to the original schematic) and make your own?

I've attached the wiring diagram for the O/D system

Park_W

DocHornet's exactly right . . . if lack of the original woven harness isn't a factor, then just get some of the original type wire from one of these sources and make your own. Recently did that for all the trunk area wiring in my Hornet ragtop.

Kdancy

I,ve made up several wirinig harnesses for different cars so my plan was to obtain this OD harness in order to duplicate the wiring size and length to make up a new one.
DocHornet, thanks for the diagram!
thanks everyone for your input!