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Old Nov 21, 2012 | 01:25 PM
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Should I wrap my wires or do a wire tuck? If i do a wire tuck i would have to cut and lengthen a lot of the wires (almost all) lol. Any down sides to doing a whole wire tuck like that? Anyone do one before?

If i wrap the wires they will still be really close to the hot side of my turbo. how would they hold up like that?

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Old Nov 21, 2012 | 01:51 PM
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Move the wires as far away as you can. Even with heat wrap they will eventually melt.

I learned this lesson the hard way...

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Old Nov 21, 2012 | 02:15 PM
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I Dunno what it is with my truck but iv never had any wire issues and there not wrapped or relocated. Still using the metal shields around them though.
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Old Nov 21, 2012 | 05:16 PM
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Yeah I figured they can only last so long. I'm worried about the wires on the drivers side coming out of the fuse box. It's a twin set up and they run over the hot side of my turbo...
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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 10:46 AM
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I moved my fuse box and pcm into the rear of the cab under the rear seat. Took a long time to do it though.
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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 11:17 AM
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U know what I did I took the Taylor wraps the frist time and it still melted so I said ok let's try ten foil and and wrapped the whole hot side then put the wraps over it never had a problem what so ever good luck I got tired of paying 70 dollars for them damn msd wires
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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by jcb5
I moved my fuse box and pcm into the rear of the cab under the rear seat. Took a long time to do it though.
Dam that's awesome. Any problems after the move? Did you just add a bunch of the same color wire between the two points and solder the connections? Thanks
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Old Nov 23, 2012 | 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by yzriders182
Dam that's awesome. Any problems after the move? Did you just add a bunch of the same color wire between the two points and solder the connections? Thanks
Thanks, only problems I had was I missed a couple of grounds for the lights,I figured I got lucky considering the amount wires.
yeah I just added a bunch of wires labeled them and solder them up also used heat shrink with glue in it to make sure every joint was good and water tight.One problem I had when I first started was the white labels in the last picture weren't very sticky and some fell off which meant I had to trace those wires back, once I got the Dymo label machine everything was fine.
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It's a slow time consuming job but I am pleased with the end results.
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Old Nov 23, 2012 | 11:26 AM
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Hats off to you sir. That is impressive, there's no way I would have the patience to do that.
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Originally Posted by jcb5
Thanks, only problems I had was I missed a couple of grounds for the lights,I figured I got lucky considering the amount wires.
yeah I just added a bunch of wires labeled them and solder them up also used heat shrink with glue in it to make sure every joint was good and water tight.One problem I had when I first started was the white labels in the last picture weren't very sticky and some fell off which meant I had to trace those wires back, once I got the Dymo label machine everything was fine.






It's a slow time consuming job but I am pleased with the end results.
Damn, you def got more patience then I'd ever have!
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