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Offline Europa73

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Top Tip during restoration removing future headaches
« on: Saturday,September 09, 2017, 05:36:00 PM »
During the restoration of my TCS, I had a brain storm

When getting ready to put in the underlay and carpet I thought "what if in the future I need to replace or run a new wire into the engine bay?"

I sure as hell would not pull up all the new underlay and carpet.

I came up with the below. I run a 1/2 in conduit from the engine bay to behind the dash, parallel with the wiring loom.

So glad I did this!

Today I had to run a new wire from the coil to the tachometer, with the conduit in place this took me all of 2 mins!!!

first blew a cotton wool ball through the pipe with string attached - then - used the string to pull through the wire.

No headache - No swearing - No pulling anything apart.

Easy fix and plenty of room for future wires if needed.
also restoring 69 Elan +2 and driving a 1975 TR6

Offline BDA

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Re: Top Tip during restoration removing future headaches
« Reply #1 on: Saturday,September 09, 2017, 06:57:56 PM »
Great idea! Where were you in 1999 when I was building my car?

I added a backup camera when I installed a new radio and a GPS driver for my electronic speedo (and it seems like more than that). A conduit would have been really nice!
« Last Edit: Monday,September 11, 2017, 01:30:47 PM by BDA »

Offline andy harwood

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Re: Top Tip during restoration removing future headaches
« Reply #2 on: Sunday,September 10, 2017, 04:10:00 AM »
Got to say that was a genius thought!. Now, when the time comes - if I remember....

Offline Mike Mileski

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Re: Top Tip during restoration removing future headaches
« Reply #3 on: Monday,September 11, 2017, 12:15:23 PM »
I did this way back, when I still had my Europa, and installed a thin piece of stainless wire when I first put the tube in so it was already there when I needed to pull a wire through.

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Offline Gmg31

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Re: Top Tip during restoration removing future headaches
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday,September 20, 2017, 05:26:15 AM »
I thought the same and made up a loom of 8 different coloured wires which I ran along the tunnel from the back of the centre console to the engine bay,