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14-11-14, 06:50
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Starter Lead
The original lead is black. When I have used NOS conduit and lead as this is how it comes from the maker, I have sweated off the terminals and replace the lead with a modern equivalent 2 inches longer and re-soldered the terminals back on. This is because the 70 year old lead is stiff as a board and hard to bend up to the terminals on the solenoid, and the extra 2 inches makes this also more achievable. You can also use black heat shrink on the ends.
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14-11-14, 07:22
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Vintage Wiring Harness, Ringwood Vic, have a lot of wiring items and the outer fabric conduit that is impregnated with black stuff (don't know if they still use tar these days).
http://www.vinwire.com.au/ From a maintainability point of view, I would use red for positive cables and black for negative cables. As suggested, heat shrink can cover the ends. I would make the cables to suit, don't go off the parts book. Often during the war, materials were in short supply so they skimped where they could. Now days a couple of extra inches will be useful.....
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14-11-14, 09:42
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Thanks Darrin and Andrew . Darrin any chance you could measure yours as my engine is off site . Dale
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16-11-14, 06:51
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My positive cable is 33" to 34" long.
It is easier to hide extra length than to find the required length. I have 8mm eyelets crimped on the end. I have also used fabric braid inside the metal conduit for this cable as I never want to have an electrical issue and have to re-do work.
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1943 Ford GPW Jeep "Follow Me" 1943 MBT trailer 1943 Dodge WC-57 Command Car 1943 Chev C60L Army Cargo Truck 1941 LP2 VR 731 Bren Gun Carrier 3" Mortar Carrying Under restoration: 1940 LP1 Bren Gun Carrier 194? 1 Ton Trl Ben Hur 1942 C15A with sunshine cabin MVPA 31338
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22-11-14, 09:30
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Started on the wiring today 35 o in the shed not the best weather to do it . This was the most frustrating part of my restoration so far hat to do it twice to get it through the conduit , hard work because some wires go to dash other go to reg the rest to solenoid any way lots of sweat and tears but it's now done . Ended up with 9 wires to dash . 5 to reg . 3 to solenoid hope this is correct ?
Dale   
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1944 GPW and Bantam trailer Last edited by Dale Jordan; 22-11-14 at 09:37.
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28-11-14, 07:22
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Conduit and wiring finished today glad that job's done
  I had a couple of hours spare this afternoon so I tested out for the first time my new gantry crane and lifted the air scoop in , now it looks like a carrier    
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1944 GPW and Bantam trailer Last edited by Dale Jordan; 28-11-14 at 07:31.
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28-11-14, 07:53
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Progress
Looking great, Dale!
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