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My 85T has 200k, lived in the very warm Carolinas for a few years.
Seems that engine degreasers and antifreeze and heat and oxygen (open air locations, not in the looms) all conspire to kill your wires. At least that's where mine look bad. I have had to redo wires going into the fusebox (big work there) and the loom going across the back of the engine at the firewall. Those were a long time ago (close to 125k.) More recent wire rebuilds have been the rad. fans, coolant thermoswitch, cruise control at the right fenderwell, distributor Hall effect wiring, and something (I dont remember what it was) on the engine near the fusebox at left rear of fenderwell. Wires inside the car, in the trunk, have all been fine. It's the heat that kills em, it seems.
Do them proactively, just before they become as-needed. Dont go crazy, just keep your eye out for problems when you're looking at other things.
I've cut some out and replaced them. I've used colored heat shrink and/or electrical tape to replace the insulation on others that were only degraded at their endpoints, keeping the metal components and end connectors of the wires. For bad sections of the looms, I've enclosed the wires in the ribbed black plastic round flex cable with a split down the side that you can get at Radio Shack - it seems to support the wires some so they don't hold their own weight up, and provides some protection from heat, the atmosphere, oil, and water. Taping around the outside of those. When I have cut into those to look at a wire years later, everything looked about as I left it.
Good luck. Dont kill yourself, just stay ahead of the ones that will cause you problems.
JBB
posted by 69.110.61...
, Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:17:52
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