[V8] Cruise Control Wiring

[Buchholz, Steven]

BTST ... yes, it is very frustrating.  

The thing is that once a weak point develops then the flexing will tend
to concentrate in that area ... which hastens the failure.  What I do on
my cars is to add a heavy polyethylene wrap around the entire flexing
part.  This tends to even out the flexing over the entire loom ... and
should prolong the life of the loom.  The sooner you do this the better.
Here is a link I found of an example of what I use ... I have not found
the really heavy duty stuff I have on line ...

	http://www.acterminals.com/psw.htm

... I've seen the stuff at Radio Shaft too ... 


Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)

... now that I'm thinking about this ... I don't remember doing this on
#2 yet ... 
> 
> My son went through a similar problem on an 87 5k a while ago. He
repaired the
> initial break using crimps, and everything worked fine. Later though
the same
> window and sunroof problems cropped up again. It turned out that the
crimp
> connection caused the wiring to flex in another direction so that the
wire
> loom just past the door jamb in the fender well was rubbing and that
caused a
> break at that point. With 14 year old wiring any sort of stress is
going to
> break it very quickly.