I'm feeling a bit under the weather so only managed 15 mins in the garage last night - I wish I hadn't bothered!

I cut through some convoluted tube destined to cover some engine bay wiring and failed to notice that my SPA oil pressure sender wire was in the tube.

I cut straight through it. The cable is what I would refer to as sophisticated in that it's not merely 4 individual cables in a sheath. Instead, you have three distinct cables for Live, Signal and Earth and then a metalic sheath which acts as a ground for the sender body apparently.

Does anyone have any experience of shortening these wires or am I screwed?

Cheers

Hi i tried repairing the same wires on a damaged loom and ended up replacing it as i was unshure if it was my repair not working or further damage from the accident hidden somwhere.

It's worth ago trying to repair it nothing to loose if your confident with the soldering iron. But then spa are helfull people and may take pitty on you. May be worth seeing what they will charge for a replacment loom.

Cheers matt

PS It willl be worth it in the end

Tim it sounds like an automotive version of 'steel wired armoured', or possible SY if the sheath is just for protection.

Really need to confirm if the sheath is earthing, I would assume this unusual on an automotive loom.

We don't use the braid as an earth anymore on SWA and include an extra core or run a seperate earth.

Shouldn't be a problem for me to repair if you want.

Lyn.

Should be fixable, but as said you need to be confident with soldering... I would offer you a hand but the distance is a little problem!

Cheers

Dan

Cheers Both.

The manual shows 4 'pins' at the sender end and gives a description for each. Sadly there are only two insulated wires, one uninsulated wire and this metallic sleeve.

Fesy - if you're still able to pop-up one evening, perhaps you can have a look then? It's a shame that the cables cannot easily be shortened as there is enough cable to run from the dash to the back-end of a London Routemaster.

Sounds like a simple screened cable to me, If you get stuck you could post out the remains to me, should be able to fix it a work so long as you cover return postage..

Dan

Bluemoon - that's a great offer!

If it comes to that, I might wait for the motor to be in place so I can cut it again to length.

Cheers.

It sounds like a simple screened cable. solder the cut wires and insulate with tape. solder the screen as well if possible. Some cable just has a foil screen, some have a bare wire in there too.

Tim

I successfully repaired my loom after melting it! The sensor end of the cables uses screw fittings so it's all dead easy to take aprt and patch a new piece in!

Regards

Wyn