Tidy plug lead routing...

[Bassfiend]

OK - time to replace the extenders on my 4.0HC whilst getting it ready for the MOT ... has anyone got any photos of how they angle the extenders to get their leads looking neat? Mine look like a bowl of spaghetti but I can't see how they could be better positioned without fouling each other.

Cheers

Phil

[J400GED]

Phil,
You're probably better off worrying about to angling them as far away from the exhaust manifolds as possible first, then the routing as secondary.

I will get pics of mine in a mo for you if that will help.

Cheers,

Ged

[J400GED]

Phil,
These might help



Ged

[Bassfiend]

At the moment mine are routed away from the exhausts (well, apart from number 8 which dropped onto the exhaust this time last year when an extender "went limp") but just look messy ... would be nice to try to tidy them up next weekend so any tidy pics would be appreciated. (Does anyone else find the extenders a PITA to get on / off due to not being able to get a hand in very well? My hands are huge and just don't get in there.

Next weekend is a "work on the car before the MOT" weekend ... need to route a new set of windscreen washer hoses all the way from the washer bottle up to the washer nozzles, do the upper ball joints on the front wishbones, ideally do the NSF upper wishbone bushes, give it an oil change and - oh yes - put the front number plate back on.

Phil

[J400GED]

Best of luck

Ged

[Bassfiend]

Ahha! Your two middle plugs "clash" on that side too ... that's exactly how mine are! (They don't press against each other but cross quite untidily.)

Thought it was just mine ... the other side on mine are similarly "not pretty"

Thanks

Phil

[J400GED]

I tried to upload some more images but I'm unable to at the mo

Ged

[scotty_d]

I don't know if you can see very well from this picture but i used the little black lead tidy's as well as they lay much better with these.

[Simon says]

Have a walk round the scrap yards Japanese cars tend to be the best source for lead tidies especially the older one's with distributors rather than coil packs fitted i.e Honda,s & Toyota's sorry about the poor picture it's old they don't get brittle either and accomadate 7mm/8mm leads,mine are from my parts bin & over 20 years ago when I had left overs from fitting s/hand engines at the Honda dealer I worked for

Edited by Simon says on Sunday 11th September 21:50

[ewan221]

scotty_d said:

I don't know if you can see very well from this picture but i used the little black lead tidy's as well as they lay much better with these.

OT sorry but love this engine bay :-) Looks even better in the flesh

[Hedgehopper]

Found these pics of neat plug lead routing....hope they help.

[Bassfiend]

Hedgehopper said:

Found these pics of neat plug lead routing....hope they help.

Looks lovely and tidy - what I really would like to see is how you've arranged your plug extenders on the plugs to achieve a tidy result ... mine seem to always end up with 4 and 6 crossed over like the example that GED posted above - yours look like all yours (especially 4 and 6 which I seem to always get "crossed") are neatly "vertical"...

Doesn't really matter of course - would just like to get the things a bit tidier if possible.

Phil

[Bassfiend]

J400GED said:

Inerestingly - my dipstick is pressed hard up against the 90 degree bend that goes from the AFM to the Plenum ... it's so tightly pressed up against it that I end up bending the top of the dipstick each time I check the oil and I'm expecting it to fatigue and snap at some point...

Phil

[Johno]

J400GED said:

Whats going on with that exhaust manifold, is that Gun Gum smeared all over the top of it ?

If you ditch the Magnecors you can also buy some decent leads like Moroso which have a 135 degree plug end, which means they sit vertically parallel with the rocker covers and tend not to make the extenders spin round on the plugs.

Magnecors really are untidy, the Moroso's can also be cut to which ever length you want and therefore can be routed how you want them . .

[haircutmike]

[Bassfiend]

Hmmmm ... I think if it's back from its MOT in time for TITT7 I may have to have a little spy under a few peoples bonnets...

Phil

[haircutmike]

I can accept criticism .

[Simon says]

haircutmike said:

I can accept criticism .

Sorry Peter I took it down because not everyone as a sense of humour like you

[Hedgehopper]

Where can I buy Moroso plug leads as all the websites appear to be in the US?

Johno says they can be cut, does this mean that you buy seperate cable and plug ends and make your own leads up?

[haircutmike]

Simon says said:

Sorry Peter I took it down because not everyone as a sense of humour like you

I must have a sense of humour, wait until you see my rocker cover/ wheel colour combo!