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Originally Posted by lolife99
You do good work.
Your progress motivates me to get somthing done.
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Thanx again, lolife!! It keeps getting easier; spare parts go on this truck...changed my mind and that stuff gets used on the other!!
You've got three so you know what I'm sayin'.
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Originally Posted by bubba327
You cannot really re-condition wire . The oils in the insulation deteriorate over time and that is what makes the jacket brittle and crack. Armour-all may help if it is not dried out too bad.
New stranded commercial electrical wiring is insulation class THHW / THHN-2 which is gasoline and oil resistant and somewhat sunlight resistant.
I added a ground wire to the frame of the back-up light and on each one of the turn signals and grounded each to the frame.
A good heavy wire with soldered connections(and heat shrink tube) clean sockets and a good ground will have reliable bright lights . Most lighting problems are usually due to bad grounds and poor connections on old trucks.  |
I use THHN every day and had no idea it was auto spec now.
I had thought about using WD-40 on the wire but didnt want the oily mess. The Armor-All was an attempt at trying to put some life back in the wire.
The grounding path from the bulb to the body on these trucks passes thru too many pieces for my taste. I 100% agree with the added ground wires.