Thread: Traxide UCI160 installation

Did you call Tim?

He usually answers the phone himself and always has time for a chat and to give advice.

Hi Jim and I can’t find your e-mail.

With the cable coming through the firewall, once you have pulled the slack back into the cab ( and to the rear cargo area ), when you put the insulation back in place, the cables ae held in place so they are fine.

At the rear, the cable is only exposed to mud and water and is already covered with an outer plastic sheath, so again, that’s all that is needed.

As you would have noticed, the twin 6B&S is double insulated (the inner red & black then the outer black sheath). It seems to be accepted that this is sufficient protection where it goes through the firewall and rear cross member plus worst case scenario there's the 50A breaker but it does auto reset. I tried adding some heat shrink to it but it was too difficult to thread it through the firewall.

For the engine bay I added some split corrugated conduit. Just happened to be in Ray's Outdoor which had a good range of sizes and cheaper than the other outlets. Not a place I expected to find it.

Thanks for the response...so..is its OK to leave cables without further protection when the car will be used for remote touring over corrugations.

Also..have people found any issues with bulldust/water ingress with firewall penetration? If so..I might have to get one of my kids to put sealant on the engine bay side of the hole..as I have fat hand syndrome!