When I rewired, I decided how many wires I would need to run front
the front of the truck to the rear, and bought a cable with that many
numbers of wires in it, I think I used a 10 conductor cable, but a couple
was not used. I bought 10 ft of, and the wires were already color coded,
and the wires were wrapped already, acutally i got the stuff from work.
On the color coding problem-there is wire marking tape available that is
about 1/4 inch wide and had #'s printed on them,radio shack
even has it, just tear off a bit and
wrap around the wire-do the same on the other end and the wire is
now marked. as far as the tubing-there is plenty of insulation on most
wiring and if water does get inside-it shouldn't cause any problems as
it would evaporate quickly. Heat shrink tubing is kind of a pain on
long runs..... If ya not gonna be to particlar get
some sorf of hose-could be fuel line and run wires through it along
the frame... Wayne
At 08:40 AM 7/8/99 PDT, you wrote:
>The next project on my '48 Chevy 1/2 ton is to rewire it. I'm going to do
>it from scratch rather than buying a harness and am wondering how to best
>protect the wires running along the frame. Most harnesses seem to be
>wrapped tightly in electrician's tape, but that seems tedious. I was
>considering using rock guard tubing (ribbed plastic tubing that has a slit
>for inserting the wires), but fear that it may trap water. A fellow list
>member suggested using heat shrink tubing. Suggestions? I will be using
>modern wires (rather than cloth) and am wondering what I should use for
>color coding. Is their a resource on the web that would detail this?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike Auser
>'48 Chevy 1/2 ton
>'52 Chevy 1/2 ton
>
>
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