Wire Tucking
michaelhinkle1
Senior Wagonist
I want everyones first hand experince.
and all the good write ups you know of, i've read my share but before i go into something this mechnically inclined i want to make sure i know exactly how to do everything.
post any good known detailed write ups and any good and bad first hand experince.
for the record, i'm going to relocate my battery to the spare tire well.
and all the good write ups you know of, i've read my share but before i go into something this mechnically inclined i want to make sure i know exactly how to do everything.
post any good known detailed write ups and any good and bad first hand experince.
for the record, i'm going to relocate my battery to the spare tire well.
Comments
Having said that if you're going to do a wire tuck I'd suggest using nothing but soldering and shrink wrapping for any wire extentions. Butt connectors, bullett connectors, etc. suck and are a guaranteed way to add nothing but problems from your electrical sysem.
BTW my shop has had to go behind "wire tucks" and fix the bullshit stuff that people have done. I had to go into the driver's fender well and pull apart all of the "tucked" wire extensions on a customer's otherwise STOCK (but only lowered) 1998 Civic coupe because of a damn secondary o2 sensor code he got after trying to tuck the wires. The customer didn't bother at all to tell us that he'd attempted a wire tuck, and for some retarded reason he only attempted to tuck that section of wiring alone that usually comes through the driver's side of the firewall right near the clutch master cylinder reservoir. It would have saved us a LOT of time.
If you EVER plan on a shop or mechanic working on your car professionally you might want to reconsider the wire tuck idea too. After what my shop went through with that situation I won't work on another tucked car, because it introduces so many other "x factors" that you cannot account for when trying to run a factory manual diagnostic flow chart on a seemingly simple problem.
Anyways I think I've made my point, albeit probably the unpopular, not wanted to be heard point.
Thanks, but no thanks.
We got duped into fixing two customers' wire tuck-fuck-ups, but we don't do tucks. We've had to fix some crazy wiring stuff before such as fender liners ripping an entire section of harness on RLs and Legends, so it's not like we can't do the tucks. We just won't do the tucks.
So I take it you're keepeing the wagon then?
me too...
if soldering, etc. sucks... then WTF can you use to extend wires??
Just my .02
Soldering itself doesn't suck. The soldering job just needs to really nice, and it needs to be heat shrink wrapped perfectly to avoid corrosion over time.