Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 14:26:56 -0500
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
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From: Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject: Re: The wire harness becomes brittle
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You want to keep all those ground wires on the body, not the engine. Keeping
them separate also has advantages. A wire fails and only one thing will stop
working. Loose the ground for all and the feedback may do other damage. Long
shot? It was designed that way for a reason, we just don't know it. When
replacing the end connections, go the extra step and get the seal
connectors. Not only is the insulation failing but road salt and stuff is
oxidizing and ruining the copper it self.
Dennis
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
TC
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 1:59 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: The wire harness becomes brittle
Ok no opinion here perhaps the .ca's on the list know of canadian retailer/
wholesaleers
where you can get
-thermal protection split tube's
-4 fi connectors
frank or ben ??
I also want to take those 6 engine ground wires & combine them inside the
split tube & have just one heavy guage
wire make a single ground spot on the engine encased in the conduit
I am semi experiened with wring but i want to make it looks like real pro
job
so what type of connector would you use to combine all the 6 engine ground
wires from the harness
in side the conduit to 1 heaver guage wire that you tie to the engine block
----- Original Message -----
From: "TC" <trclark@SHAW.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: The wire harness becomes brittle
> So I have had number of issues with my wire harness recently & found a
> younger harness
> that is not so brittle
>
> so first I want to clean up the newer one change boots for the fi & there
> are 3 or 4 wire that are bit
> stiff so i will cut those back & re-crimp the ends etc...
>
> But I look at my 87 bmw 325i with 300k on the clock it has none of these
> wiring issues that the van has
> because it use's that split loom tubing ...
> My belief is that the cheesy plastic sleeves do a poor job of protecting
the
> wires from the temperature
> ranges in the engine compartment && the fact that the sleeve seems to
always
> be cut too short such that
> the last 1-3" or wire are exposed rather than the enclosed in the plastic
> sleeve
>
> I think if I were to take this new to me harness strip all the low life
> plastic sleeve off & replace it with
> split loom tubing with thermal protection like
> http://cableorganizer.com/convoshield/
> & run the tube right up to each joint or connector & leave no wire ends
> exposed
>
> This issue of the wring in the engine compartment would be put to sleep
for
> next 5years at least
>
> Is there any thing else I can do is there a wire dressing i can spray on
> this harness to make it more flexible
> Is there a better product than that convoshield/