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paul_l
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Engine / autobox wire loom
« on: Oct 5th, 2010, 10:55pm » |
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Hi , After owning my 1995 ultima 24v scorpio for 4 years and for the last year having mega autobox problems which resulted in the car spending more time of the road than on i have taken the bull by the horns and striped it down to find as suspected a very crispy /cracked & cumblely wire loom, I have been looking on ebay but no luck ! Could anyone suggest were i might be able to find one ?? I would even concider buying a new one because the car has only 69000 miles on the clock and scrapping is not an option. 
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #1 on: Oct 6th, 2010, 8:49am » |
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how bad is bad? the odd section of missing insulation is very common, if its like the loom i removed from a car in a scrap yard a few years ago when had no insulation of any kind across the entire length of the v section
it may just be worth getting some heat shrink and patching it up
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #2 on: Oct 6th, 2010, 9:52am » |
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I'd go for the repair option, either your own or find a second hand one if you can.
If you could actually find a new one for sale I dont think you would consider it an option for long, they are VERY expensive!
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #3 on: Oct 6th, 2010, 9:56pm » |
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Hi large lumps of the tape insulation are missing but what concerns me more is that i can see cracks in the wires running through the v section ! Will try patching as you suggest but will still try for second hand one before i dive into it ( Hell of a lot of wires in there ) !!. After i sent origanal post i found an old post on the forum with similar problem and the price of a new loom quoted ( WOW ) see what u mean !!, Same old cenario "theres one somewhere it just finding it " !! 
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Mike H
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #4 on: Oct 7th, 2010, 7:07pm » |
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Can't see a simple way round it, just means meticulously soldering in replacement wires
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #5 on: Oct 7th, 2010, 9:54pm » |
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Chasing replacement one at mo ( fingers crossed) !!
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #6 on: Oct 8th, 2010, 9:53pm » |
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Hi ,Had a bit of a result this am managed to speak to a man called Dave at bygonebathrooms understand he is well known by a few forum members, very helpfull chap ! He has a second hand loom that he is gonna mail me, so when it arrives i plan to lay it all out on the kitchen table ( while the missis is watching telly ) and repair as nessecary ! He said it has been clean cut at the autobx end of the v , Would it have to be soldered and shinkwrapped there or is there some good other way that i could reconnent them ie good quality connectors ? My drift of thinking is that way i could cut my old loom and connect the repaired at that point and not have to drop the auto box ??
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #7 on: Oct 9th, 2010, 4:02pm » |
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I'd probably try that, and solder and heatshrink. Hope wires are same colours!
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Re: Engine / autobox wire loom
« Reply #8 on: Oct 9th, 2010, 8:05pm » |
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Me 2 !! 
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