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<\/p>\nMy 1990 F-250 has led a hard life, and the wiring has taken a beating. It’s been hacked together enough that I don’t even want to touch any of it if I can avoid it. One thing I noticed with some of the wiring that had been done was that they didn’t use the wire you can buy at the auto parts store, they used house wiring.<\/p>\n
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You usually use stranded copper wire because it’s more flexible than solid core, but there’s a piece of solid core wire on the truck with green insulation, obviously the ground wire from what you use in a house. There was also this piece that still had the covering around the three standard house wiring colors of black, white, and green. If I really wanted to I would figure out what these wires are for and replace them with the right wire and run it neatly, but right now I don’t want to spend that kind of time working on the truck.<\/p>\n
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