jeepforlife
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I recently bought a 79 m35a2 am general that was on the minot air base before being sold and will admit not knowing much, after a day of having it i caught someone in it messing around in the cab and because im in town it likely will or has happened again. So i bought keyed door locks and start switch, problem is the harness wires are numbered and i cant find anything on which is which. Guy before had a jerry rigged start switch and i needed something to keep the local jackass's from playing with it. So the numbers are 117,127,118, 174. My mechanic said they were being fazed out by the time he entered service so he didnt get much training on it and is equally dumbfounded on the numbers that dont match anything
. The wiring harnesses are sort of generic, in that there's many different M44 variants that use the same harness, so some wires literally DO go to nothing. Those CAD blueprints are your best shot for getting it right. Something worth checking into would be a keyed battery disconnect, that way even if some jagamo manages to get passed the keyed ignition, there won't be any power to the system unless the interrupt switch is unlocked. I have an unkeyed version installed and I love it.
