The main or apparent difference is the earlier AD trucks have a large fuse box on the firewall with 5 fuses.
The later AD trucks have a small box with only 2 fuses.

I believe the earlier harness include fuses for high beam, low beam, and park lights. The headlight switch also has a circuit breaker that (I believe) protects this wiring.
The later harness without these fuses still has circuit breaker in light switch.

Unless you're real concerned with exact originality I don't see as it makes much difference either way which version of the harness you use. So long as you have the appropriate fuse box to go with it.





1951 GMC 250 in the Project Journals
1948 Chevrolet 6400 - Detroit Diesel 4-53T - Roadranger 10 speed overdrive - 4 wheel disc brakes
1952 Chevrolet 3800 pickup
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