Topic: Q: What's a good material to protect sensor wires in an engine bay?
Hi:
I'm taking a break from Lemons and building up a UTV to race in the Mexican 1000. I figured lots of you have build experience so you might be able to recommend something for me here
- I'm need to run a few sensor & radio wires down the central driveshaft/shifter console area of my UTV (a Wildcat XX). Unlike a car where there is a metal cover, there's just a plastic arm rest console that goes between the dashboard area and the rear engine bay and covers the driveshaft that goes forward to the front diff.
- Currently, we have the radio wires (which go from the dashboard mounted radio back towards behind the driver/codriver seats for the intercom) as well as three sensor wires (oil temp, coolant temp, and belt IR temp) that need to go from the engine bay to the gauges.
- All of these wires are currently just ziptied to underside of the plastic arm rest/shifter console so they don't drop down and hit the driveshaft.
- For similar applications in my Lemons car, I just used the plastic split wire loom/conduit stuff all IT monkeys love for cable organization.
Since we are planning to race in Baja, we'd like to give them more protection than that.
Q: What would you folks recommend?
- A 1" exhaust tube would be more than enough but that would add weight I'd rather not put in the vehicle.
- Would you think a 1" coolant hose be a good tradeoff between weight and protection from the errant rock?
Please LMK what you might suggest.
Thanks,
-g
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