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When working on Trucks with heaps of airlines, pipes and wiring all zip tied, running inside the chassis rail and all over the place and you have to get your mitt down between the chassis and a whopping big engine it sometimes gets a wee bit hard to see these little black daggers sticking out everywhere, if you cant trim them at least rotate them so the sharp bit is not protruding, Regards Frank.Quote:
Originally Posted by rovercare
you should be a little more careful then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tank
i'd hate to see the state you'd be in after doing some deck work, you think cable ties can cut you, mate! spend a day running conduits through steel work and see what sort of damage the cut off tie-wire can do.
you'll come out looking like you've been wrestling a pack of feral cats all day
Seriously? And here I thought they were just for interesting weekend activities. I'll have to stop winding my cables round and round other harnesses now wont I?Quote:
Originally Posted by barney
On the slicing versus cutter issue. I carry...dont fall over...a nail file. Sharp bits irritate me too.
back to the original issue, try using some small ID split corrugated conduit to sleeve the plug leads, wrap em up in leccy tape to keep the dirt and crap up, the split corrugated conduit will add an extra level of mechanical, electrical and thermal insulation
as for cable ties, ffs definitely cut them properly, if i can get away with it in places where there is likely to be a cut hazard, i'll burr the cut end by smacking it with my pliers
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Originally Posted by Relay
FMD next thing you'll be going all girlie on us and carrying lipstick and perfume in the County.
2006 after a day in Toolangi forest!!!
Sorry for the size of the image, not too good with the posting of photos!!
I like the conduit Idea, might do that after I get some new leads though. But there is a few issues I need to sort out before I get onto the leads. Such as getting the mechanical advance of my distributor done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sprint
Try and find a reconditioned one. A lot cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by stirlsilver
If you cant get one down there let me know and I'll arrange one from up here.
Cheers,
Ron
back to the original problem of spark scatter/cross firing with the leads, I vote change the leads.
I had a 351C with 11.75:1 CR using a Scorcher/Holden/Bosch HE ignition running on LPG and never had a problem. (and FWIW I was running Eagle leads at the time, purely as they were made locally and I could get them for a good price)
There is nothing wrong with my distributor, it's just that the mechanical advance is wrong for the engine, there is too much advance beyond 3000 rpm and it starts to pink. So i've had a quote for $200 to get the distributor overhauled and the mechanical advance changed. I would imagine that if I were to get a recoed one, I would still have the advance problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by RonMcGr
Rick, what thickness/style of lead were you running? I've got 10.5mm queensland ignition leads at the moment (the company is queensland ignition). Is cross fire within the distributor cap ever a problem? or is it always outside that you get crossfire?Quote:
Originally Posted by rick130