The original harness will have been wrapped with non-adhesive PVC tape. I dislike the cloth covered harness as the covering attracts all the oil and shite these engines express. After having to deal with a bike that had had a cloth covered harness fitted i disliked them even more, far too stiff to get around the frame, the ends of the cloth tape were super glued so when having to modifiy the harness to get it to fit properly i had to do some surgery with a scalpel to get the cloth tape off. re-wrapped with non adhesive tape.
Cloth vs Vinyl Wire Harness?
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Lol
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"but if I sat in a plane that vibrated as much as my bike, I'd be very worried "
Then never fly in a Chinook. Feels like one end of the aircraft is constantly trying to detach from the other.
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- and any aircraft powered by a Jacobs radial.
There is a reason they called them “ shaky Jakes “
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Nowhere! That is done by a machine in the process of making the harness. It is like making rope or braiding hair just with LOTS of strands. There are cloth-looking expandable tube wraps but it's nothing like actual cloth wrapping.
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I consider that to be nice for cleanly running wires in a clear dry environment indoors. I've seen it on motorcycles and it's usually a oily, dirty mess. It might be OK inside a car.
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12 years on my ES2 - neither dirty or oily - just a little faded.
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I have used this without issue
I use a short piece of heat shrink on each end
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I use it. I like it a lot. I melt the ends after cutting and use heat shrink as Baz says. It’s very neat, durable and flexible. And easy to use.
Gregs point about it becoming an oily messy could well be correct if you have that kinda bike.
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I used that sort of stuff. Once.
It burns well and very quickly - it gave me a hell of a fright when a short circuit produced a lot of smoke shortly followed by the aforementioned flame.
I then bought a roll of harness tape.
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I have that "kinda bike"/bikes that I use in just about any weather one thing that has never crossed my mind until now is how dirty or oily it could get !
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Not had that experience as yet
I'll bear it mind
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What is that device mounted on the mudguard stay that your wires terminate in ?
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This is a timely discussion, as I'm just about to "wrap up" the installation of a Motogadget M.Unit on the red '72.
I have used the Tesa adhesive cloth tape with success on my bikes over the years. It doesn't go sticky and offers good insulation. For the main part of the harness under the main frame tube, I'll probably go with marine grade shrink tubing. It's thick and holds the wires together well.
The new wiring harness replaces a stock harness that used the non adhesive vinyl tape. The bike had started to back fire and upon removal of that harness, I found a ignition wire had worn through its insulating covering as well as the vinyl tape and was shorting to the frame. That harness was less than 10 years old.
I have used the Tesa adhesive cloth tape with success on my bikes over the years. It doesn't go sticky and offers good insulation. For the main part of the harness under the main frame tube, I'll probably go with marine grade shrink tubing. It's thick and holds the wires together well.
The new wiring harness replaces a stock harness that used the non adhesive vinyl tape. The bike had started to back fire and upon removal of that harness, I found a ignition wire had worn through its insulating covering as well as the vinyl tape and was shorting to the frame. That harness was less than 10 years old.
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Hi Nigel - that is a period correct threaded disconnect. The garden gate chassis rear fender has a removable section for tire ( tyre) changing. It snaps in/ out of the holder .
