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K2-K6:
Stidds, your question about wire gauge; I think the rating was ok but may not be much spare capacity although it seems not to give a problem. Most of the issues I've seen come from damage or corrosion and they seem to function reliably if you take care of these points.

If the size gets much bigger you will have difficulty in threading all around any tight spots and have to squash it in which can get you struggling particularly the headlight.

Another higher wear point can be around the headstock especially if the covering has been damaged.

Spitfire:
When I rebuild my F1 I took the harness into the garage and cleaned every connector with my Dremel and a tiny wire brush, small files, sandpaper, lots of WD40 and all sorts of odd tools. When everything was shiny I put the harness back on and using Dielectric grease  connected everything up. However I still had a problem later with the soldered joints on the back of the fuse box failing which gave me an intermittant no power problem.

Cheers

Den

stidds:
Thanks for the replies guys it really is appreciated.

I will look at the loom and clean everything as per Spitfires message.

Can anyone tell me what is the best size cable to use on the loom?

Spitfire:
Don't know where this came from (think it was a thread on the US site) but this was the info that I used on mine, got the wiring from Halfords and the connectors from ebay (Yambits I think).
Think it was from this thread, very useful
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=13258.0;nowap
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=13258.50
"earth 2.5 mm2(there are a lot of branching from earth)
all other 1,5 mm2"

Cheers

Den

stidds:
Thanks every so much Den, that link is perfect.

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