[DML] Re: Oil Light
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[DML] Re: Oil Light




Wire repairs are part & parcel of vintage vehicle ownership,
especially in the engine compartment. Is a harsh environment for
electrical systems (with planned obsolescence to begin with!). Wires
that drape across an engine fare the worst -- electric choke, A/C
solenoid, etc. A survey of DeLo owners would probably find MANY
replaced connectors and even wire splices in the engine compartment.

BTW: you don't have to replace an entire wiring harness to correct a
single offending wire or connector -- simply cut off the damaged
portion and replace it. Can even be done within a wrapped harness by
removing some of the factory tape, making the repair, then re-wrapping
with new tape (I just did such where a trim screw punctured into a
wire bundle and caused a short circuit).

While my DeLo was still using a K Jetronic manifold, I relocated its
engine wiring harness to the passenger valve cover (passed under the
air filter in the space between the its fresh air port and the intake
manifold "runners"/"risers"). Required lengthening two wires within
the bundle as I recall. Allowed me to drop the intake manifold
straight down rather than swooping it sideways under the harness. Is
now a moot point of course.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Luis Bas" <TrekkerLB@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to all for the info, it was in fact the wire shorted.
> 
> After seeing how brittle they were, I want to try a winter project of
> changing the harness.  After looking at the vendors website (didn't
> actually contact them yet) no one had harnesses for vins 3723.  Any
> recommendations?  I looked in to hi temp wire 150-200 deg C but could
> not readily find all the combinations of color that we have.  I thought
> it would be good to try to keep to the color scheme.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> 
> And thanks again for the help!
> Luis
> 3723
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Teitelbaum [mailto:jtrealty@xxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:51 PM
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DML] Re: Oil Light

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