new loom? DIY or buy?

**Lotz-A-Landies** · 2nd April 2008, 03:58 PM

Just a note on Vintage Wiring - at the Eastern Creek Classic last year I spoke to them about making me a new loom for my series 2b.

Even if they don't have your vehicle's wiring loom in their catalogue they can make one up for you using a variety of methods for the design.

They will replicate your current loom if you take it to them to copy.
They will modify the design of a loom off a similar model and use the dimensions colour codes you give them for the differences.
You can design a loom yourself, giving dimensions, colour codes and a schematic/diagramme.

Within the constraints of availability they will supply the appropriate grommets.

Depending upon your request:

They will use cotton braided or plastic insulated wires.
They will wrap the loom in either cotton or plastic.

I have a loom from them on my 1951 80" and would recommend them as a supplier.

Diana

**flagg** · 2nd April 2008, 10:48 PM

What ever you do-

PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD. DO NOT MAKE THE WHOLE THING OUT OF THE SAME RED CABLE.

..like the 'person' did who re-wired mine.

This has been a public service announcement.

**p38arover** · 2nd April 2008, 11:27 PM

When I was a trainee tech, we had to learn to make looms (although not for cars!).

We made up the pattern of what we wanted on a large board (loom board) and placed nails where we were branching from the main loom.

In the method, lengths of wire are drawn from wire supplies and cut, each end of each cut wire being stripped of insulation and terminated, and the cut wire then being laid along a predetermined path defined by guide pins on a loom board.

The wires were laid out then we laced it to keep the thing neat. For a car, you wouldn't lace but you'd wrap with tape - not sticky electical tape but loom tape.

In your case, you can lay out the old loom to make the pattern on the loom board. You can add all the extra wiring and fuse blocks and improve on teh original quite markedly.

If you can strip some old looms from other British cars (that used Lucas), you can get a good supply of wires in the right colours. Later cars have even more colours in the Lucas scheme.

**p38arover** · 2nd April 2008, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by flagg

What ever you do-

PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD. DO NOT MAKE THE WHOLE THING OUT OF THE SAME RED CABLE.

..like the 'person' did who re-wired mine.

This has been a public service announcement.

My daughter's Peugeot 405 had a lot of wiring in the same colour. Peugeot printed the wire number at the end of each wire in tiny print that rubs off. Tracing wiring a nightmare! Only the bloody French could come up with that idea!

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