Most wires are there for a reason, but if this is what you want to do....... remove the wires one at a time and make sure everything you want it to do still works..... ie lights, horn, wipers heater, radio etc......
In my '59 Ford, there are a total of 50 wires in the harness kit I got for it. Of the 50, maybe 6-8 are spare circuits. I have wipers, heat and defrost and not much else.
If you want to retain things like power windows, 50 wires won't hack it. Newer cars also have more redundancy built into the electrics.
Is this a street driven truck? If so you will need wipers, turn signals, headlights, tail lights, back up lights, horn, blinkers, heater, starting, charging, and any accessory circuits used to power electric fans or aftermarket ignition boxes.
Adding an aftermarket ignition box will increase the number of wires, not lessen them. You will still need your coil and ignition wires to run the engine.
Rather then going thru the hassle of removing a couple of wires, which is a waste of time, just run them in some nice loom, clean them up, hide them behind fenders or route them a better way. There are many things you can do to make the wires look better. Just removing them is moot as there are still MANY wires needed to make the vehicle function legally on the street
Mark.
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