Touring Wiring

[johnnye23]

This is how I spent Thanksgiving day playing with the new Touring ! It was a success all functions now operating normal again ! http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/4/572/829/38927914008_medium.jpg

[sfgearhead]

Congrats, did you just splice in new wire? Crimp or solder? What gauge wire?

As you can probably tell I need to do this, again! Last time I only fixed the broken wires, and sure enough others soon broke.

[pennpen]

soooo whats the best method? crimp, solder? i was just gonna solder

what gauge wire should we use? if we wanna remake some sections?

[johnnye23]

I just did a quick crimp repair using the same gauge wire . It started raining so I needed to wrap it up. If I need to redo it in the future I will solder and use heatshrink on the repairs. It is really a pretty easy repair .

[M Quick]

When i repaired mine i cut away about 10 inches of each cable (those who run along the hinge part) so that when i got the new cables on, there would only be clean cables running along the hinge part and no solder+crimp at that section only before and after the hinge part, and i used the same gauge wire as the ones i cut away. Has been holding up without any issues at all since then, and that was a long time since.
I have done the lazy way before with soldering+crimping it togheter at the broken point only, and that didn't hold for more than a month.. So that is not recommended!

[attack eagle]

last time i did mine i cut crimps in 1/2, and back spliced in a couple inches of new wire