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[Terranosaurus]

Spent a couple of hours tonight making up wiring looms - not finished yet.

To give you some idea I bought 103m of cable, modular fuse/relay box with 16 way fuse holder & 2 x 4 way relay holder, 6 switches, 5 x 5 blade relays (got some 4 blade already), cable junction box, 100A (180A peak) relay for split charge.

Tonight I made up the roof loom, will run 4 front spots, 2 rear reverse/work lights and a beacon. Bunched up the front loom, 4 spots, but not finished it and bunched up the control loom, again not finished yet.

Theres provison in the fuse box etc for later projects like air horns and electric fan etc. + a couple of spares

All cabling is thin wall lightweight stuff and is being put in braided nylon sleeving and then cable tied on place to cable tie saddles.

Inside the following are going in

Tripmeter
Car PC with 9" touchscreen
CB radio
Amateur radio - yaesu 8900
12v DIN outlet for map reading light
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Its a bit of a mammoth excerise but will be worth it when done, the loom I've done already looks really good and the whole effect will be better than original equipment IMHO. I used to work doing stuff like this on rally cars but its been a few years since I did anything on this scale - quite enjoying it really, no scotchloks, no solder almost exclusively non insulated crimps with boots if necessary.

 

[zippy656]

what no pics??


soulds like fun, i used to make up wireing looms some years back.

had a big 8' x 4' ply base and pegs i could move to match where i needed bends. i had over 100 colours to pick from. the biggest i did took me 3 weeks i think it was.

 

[Terranosaurus]

I'll take a pic of the finished loom before it goes in but really it will just be a coil of black sheathing with some wire coming out of the ends - look much better in situ

 

[Terranosaurus]

Ok no terminals on yet but heres some picks of the loom.

From the back you have

Worklight - Beacon - Worklight

Roof light - Roof light - Roof light - Roof light

Fuse box and spur to inside for switches and power to accessories.

Connections to secondary battery.

Plug for lamp pod

 

[Terranosaurus]

Engine bay loom - fuse box, battery, earths, lamp pod

 

[Terranosaurus]

Roof lights

 

[Terranosaurus]

reverse/worklights and beacon

 

[zippy656]

very nice mate.

a lot smaller than the ones i used to make.

 

[Terranosaurus]

very nice mate.

a lot smaller than the ones i used to make.

What did you used to make em for?

Theres about 100m of cable there though.

 

[zippy656]

church pipe organs.

some would take weeks to make
oh what fun

 

[zippy656]

To give you some idea I bought 103m of cable, modular fuse/relay box with 16 way fuse holder & 2 x 4 way relay holder, 6 switches, 5 x 5 blade relays (got some 4 blade already), cable junction box, 100A (180A peak) relay for split charge.


hi, i dont expect an answer untill your back as you must be a little busy...


ok where you get that lot above from,. ive been thinking about doing a little wireing myself. and want it to look bette then most diy wire jobs. part number would be good too


Zippy