HELP Brown wire

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mikester

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Ive taken a lot of crap apart and Ive never seen that before. You learn something new every day. It looks like the stuff they used to wire mobile homes with instead of Romex
 
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Seriously, you know where both ends are; piece it out. It's not the end of the world.

I have tried to splice together broken aluminum wires in the trunk and never had luck What I did was to add some copper strand wire to act as a bridge and used shrink tube to hold the wires together and then covered that with electrical tape. I am going to use all led lights in the rear so I can use some wire my friend has at his shop. It's a 5 wire bound in a cover, the gauge is 18 so that will be perfect for led lights. I don't need the pink gas gauge wire.
 
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mikester

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I have tried to splice together broken aluminum wires in the trunk and never had luck What I did was to add some copper strand wire to act as a bridge and used shrink tube to hold the wires together and then covered that with electrical tape. I am going to use all led lights in the rear so I can use some wire my friend has at his shop. It's a 5 wire bound in a cover, the gauge is 18 so that will be perfect for led lights. I don't need the pink gas gauge wire.

What years and models used that ? Like I said, Ive never seen that before.
 

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Ive taken a lot of crap apart and Ive never seen that before. You learn something new every day. It looks like the stuff they used to wire mobile homes with instead of Romex
Perhaps GM was going to offer an aftermarket "Mobile Home" conversion kit, so they anticipated and integrated the aluminum wire into the car so it truly gives you that true quality mobile home feel :p LMAO!! It would have been called a "Olsmobilehome" :ROFLMAO:
 
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What years and models used that ? Like I said, Ive never seen that before.

All the G bodies I have owned and the ones we turned into circle track cars had the aluminum wire. They were all 81 and up
 
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All the G bodies I have owned and the ones we turned into circle track cars had the aluminum wire. They were all 81 and up
I am thinking my old '79 had a aluminum harness too but I haven't seen that car in 25 years to say if I'm remembering correctly.
 
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mikester

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I am thinking my old '79 had a aluminum harness too but I haven't seen that car in 25 years to say if I'm remembering correctly.

Ive had the dashes and bulkhead connectors out of both of my cars (81 and 83) and Ive never seen anything like that. Was it all GM or do I have something weird ?
 
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