[Healeys] Traffiator install woes

[Neil McDonald]

The electrical industry has a special non-oily lubricant that it uses to
minimize friction before pulling cables into ducts. First lubricate the
wiring harness. If I recall correctly it ends up feeling like talcum
powder.  Very effective. I guarantee that this would help.

Neil
BN6

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 11:26 AM Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I did the same thing; messy but worked.
>
> Regards,
> Richard C
> BN7 440
>
>
> On Oct 4, 2019, at 20:50, Ron Fine <ronfineesq at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 
> I just went through this process several times on my BN7.  I have a
> relatively new wiring harness, but nothing I tried would get the wires back
> down the tube.  I ended up cutting off the metal connectors on most of the
> wires, leaving one to use to attach the string.  Fairly easy to replace the
> tips at the front of the steering box if the grill is out of the car.
>
> Good Luck
> Ron Fine
>
> *From:* Keith Pennell via Healeys
> *Sent:* Friday, October 04, 2019 3:28 PM
> *To:* healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* [Healeys] Traffiator install woes
>
> Well "assembly is the reverse of disassembly" right?  Managed to remove
> the wiring harness in the manner I have done times before.  That is,
> attaching a string to the har before pulling it up through the stator
> tube.  Problem is cannot get har back down through the tube.  After
> numerous attempts the string broke.  Does not help that the cloth
> insulation is deteriorated and missing on about the last foot of the har.
>
> Any suggestions how to proceed
> Keith
>
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