Date:         Sat, 6 May 1995 22:24:33 -0500 (CDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti>
Subject:      Re: conduit for your bus?

>From schwarze@superc.nosc.mil  Sat May  6 20:49:02 1995
>From: David Schwarze <schwarze@superc.nosc.mil>
>Subject: Re: conduit for your bus?
>Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 18:49:01 -0700 (PDT)

Christopher Bridge writes:
> I was thinking about running a piece of flexible conduit under my bus to 
> allow for the many wires I'll be running for the gauges.  Has anyone done 
> this, or better yet how and where do you run the wires for the gauges?  I 
> saw some stuff called "ENC", which stands for electrically non conductive 
> conduit.  It was $2.50 for 10 feet.  There are some connectors and such made 
> for this stuff as well.  All in all, it would only cost around 6 bucks to 
> run the length of the bus.  What do you think?

I think I did this and it was a frigging nightmare.  I couldn't find a ten
foot piece of the stuff, so I used three 4-foot pieces and some twist ties 
to hold them together.  I ran the plastic conduit and 4 wires through the
holes in the frame rails and then through a hole in my engine tin.  One of
the dirtiest jobs I have ever done, cause dirt kept falling in my face as I
lay on my back under the bus.  It probably would be a cakewalk if you could
put your bus up on a lift, though.  Goggles are a necessity for this job.

-David

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