Engine Compartment Cleanup!!
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Engine Compartment Cleanup!!
Hi guys, is there a source here on the forum for ideas and steps to clean up the engine compartment? I would like to do something between stock and full custom. Keep it stock looking but address some of the things that can be done to make it a show and daily driver. Mainly to get rid of the wiring as much as possible. You see these trucks with full custom jobs and wonder how they did it, to have all the wiring to disappear. Thanks, Tom
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To do away with alot of the wiring and clutter ,I would recommend getting rid of the duraspark sytem and installing a points type distributer with an electronic conversion.If you know wiring well enough you could also upgrade your alternator to one than puts out more power and has a built in voltage regulator.I belive there called a 1 wire hook-up alternator.Between the dist.and alternator you could eleminate at least 8 or more wires to just about 3.I hope to do this one of these day when I get my body and paint work done.
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Originally Posted by tom1979
Hi guys, is there a source here on the forum for ideas and steps to clean up the engine compartment? I would like to do something between stock and full custom. Keep it stock looking but address some of the things that can be done to make it a show and daily driver. Mainly to get rid of the wiring as much as possible. You see these trucks with full custom jobs and wonder how they did it, to have all the wiring to disappear. Thanks, Tom
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I guess the question is...how much do you have to hide? Does the truck have AC,cruise control, stock air cleaner , dual batteries and so on and so forth. As for wiring one thing comes to mind..ZIP ties and lots of em even on plug wires. You could also get a serpentine system which would eliminate all those acc. belts. An E fan instead of the mechanical one would give you some room between the rad. and front of the engine (plus it might free up a pony or two). If you have room behind your seat or in the bed somewhere you could move the battery out of the engine bay and free up some room there (just make sure you have it secured and vented in need be). Umm so basically...it boils down to how much you want to spend and how much you wanna work. Things like ZIP ties and relocating the battery are pretty cheap and could be done on a weekend, heck even the E fan as well. If you wanna take out any more my suggestion would be to fab up some sheetmetal inserts that can hide other things.
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I put my jack in the toolbox and the vacuum canisters on the inner fender, i swappped them to where they bolt to the bottom side of the inner fender out of sight. I also ran a few wires under the inner fenders so you dont see them.
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Instead of zip-ties on the plug wires, I'd suggest using the plastic plug-wire separaters spaced about 4"-6" apart. They come is different colors. They can also help when the plugs get changed by keeping the wires in position. & shorten the plug wires to eliminate Xess length.
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From: Murray
Only problem with those seperators is that they fall off too easily. I went through a set or two and finally settled on ZIP ties. They work great dont fall off and are practically invisible....after all they were designed to keep wires bundled.
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They come in different colors too
-Chris
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They come in different colors too
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A suggestion on the use of zip ties: When I have used them in the past for plug wires, I took four ties and put all of them togetherafter the wires are in the middle of the box the four ties create. You can then pull two opposite sides short and leave the other two long which creates a nice rectangle with the zip tie head at each corner. Nice, neat, won't fall off and looks better than just one bundling all of them up into a circular bundle of wires.
Originally Posted by 73f350sc
Only problem with those seperators is that they fall off too easily. I went through a set or two and finally settled on ZIP ties. They work great dont fall off and are practically invisible....after all they were designed to keep wires bundled.
-Chris
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They come in different colors too
-Chris
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They come in different colors too
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