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go bucks!
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: MIAMISBURG OHIO USA
Posts: 803
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tell me i'm the only one here.....
that notices little things like using shrink tubing on all the electrical leads/ends in the engine compartment. it just makes everything look more neat and orderly in an engine bay. i'm just pet-peevish about little things like that,that finishes off things.guess i'm just weird.....doh!!
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Frankfort, Kentucky, USA
Posts: 2,163
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I'm big on trying to do the little things to make my truck look extra special. My room mate always talks trash cuz I'll do something, and redo it like 6 or 7 times because i always find a neater, or more concealed way to do something. He tends to just throw it together and drive as soon as possible. Thats just not my style.
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Recovering Truck Driver
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Orleans, NE USA
Posts: 1,883
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The first thing I do when I look at a truck is check under the hood and the dash and look at the electrical connections.......you have no idea how many times I've seen trucks or cars that just had the wires twisted together.......didn't even bother to buy a roll of tape!! I don't like chasing electrical problems anyway, much less fixing someones hack job.
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: central Ill. USA
Posts: 447
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I've always been big on shrink tubing. I've had winter road salt eat thru 12 guage wire that was unprotected. Took 2 days to find out why truck would'nt start.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: daytonabeach
Posts: 22,956
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i buy shrink tubing in 25foot rolls find all sorts of uses for it
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Lafayette, LA
Posts: 500
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If you are going to make an electrical connection between two wires, there is only one way IMHO...tin both ends, solder and shrikwrap. You get full continuity out of the wire, and it is protected from the elements. Oh yeah...looks good too!
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Frankfort, Kentucky, USA
Posts: 2,163
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Anybody ever seen soldered connectors? The only ones i've ever found were crimp. Most anyone i ever talked to crimped their wires.
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'69 CST Short fleetside Lowered, 400 small block, 700R4, 4 wheel disc brakes, front sway bar & rear camaro sway bar (in progress) '87 V10 4x4 Short Fleetside Quad Suspension and Dual Tanks |
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
Posts: 2,693
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I use the crimp butt conectors with the heat shring tubing already on them. Kinda expensive, but my boss told be to help myself.
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Washington State
Posts: 8,834
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cdowns, where do you get your shrink wrap?
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: daytonabeach
Posts: 22,956
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j.c.whitney has rolls of shrink tube and i also purchase the real premium stuff thats waterproof from a local marina
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71c-10 350/2004r/4:11 lowered3/4 longbed/dead by hurricane MEANING OF DEATH::::: SOMEBODY ELSE GETS YOUR STUFF DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK TAKE MY ADVISE;I DON'T USE IT ANYWAY |
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Low69, what kind of car does your roommate have? A rice burner or something close that will either breakdown or fall apart in a year, where our trucks or still going strong after 35 or so years............
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