Well, I paid for the Painless harness, which "ojh" says he wouldn't do. I have very little electrical knowledge and had heard it was considered the "best". I'll not be using an after-market steering column though either (at least not the first go 'round). I plan on using the stock column, even though I'm running an AMC Pacer rack & pinion front end. Reckon I'll have to figure out how to splice in a turn signal switch...if I decide to use one. The ol' hand signals worked great when I had my first truck.
I've yet to start running any wires as I have so many other parts I'm working on. I knew that rebuilding one of these would be time consuming, but I didn't realize that it was getting all of the little things done would take so much time. Like striping and repainting the vent window frames, inside windshield molding, getting the stainless on the dash cleaned up, dome light, etc.
Look forward to trying the wiring. Hope it's as "painless" as they say it is.