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I finished my American Autowire Update kit!!! (not without help) It wasn't as bad as i thought and following suggestions from the group helped tremendously, thanks All said and done i had 2 big problems: my blower motor would not work on any speed and dome light/brake light fuse kept blowing when power was applied. I added courtesy lights under the dash and the instructions say to double the wires, into a series 56male terminal, from the connector that runs to the dome light back to the drivers side courtesy light.... now i have the crimpers from AAW and i did a pretty good job on the other terminals but apparently i cannot get these right. long story short i just used the factory wiring connectors in the dash harness for the console courtesy lights plugged it into the underdash lights and all works great!!! Blower motor 😒 would not work on any speed. After a good time every wire under the dash i reached out to JFT69z.... huge help!!!!! After a great discussion and some well needed knowledge on how the system works i was armed with some troubleshooting steps. The last thing Joe said was "does the motor WORK, is it bad?" Well of course it works, i bench tested it before i painted it and put it in. Got 12v to the motor it didn't work, ripped the fender off pulled motor out and found the ground was bad on the motor frame. Cleaned the paint off reattached the ground terminal and it works like a champ! My point to all this rambling is this: Installing a complete wiring harness, in my opinion, is a huge undertaking. When something does not work I look at the WHOLE thing thinking so many things to check and totally overlooked the the basic troubling shooting steps. Instead of thinking there is a thousand connections i just made which one is wrong, think smaller, basic steps first and it becomes so much more manageable. Secondly, ask for help before you go crazy!! AAW has a fantastic tech support and this forum is outstanding! Best $25 i've ever spent!!! tons of knowledge, experience and willingness to help perfect strangers!!! Thanks again to Joe for his help on a Sunday afternoon, he could've been watching football, but he was on the phone with me!😁👍