badlegbill
XS650 Member
Things may be different for the guys who live in the sunshine but here in the UK we have rain sometimes so green wires are an issue.
Also aging and corrosion of the terminals of the fuse box create significant drops; so one solution to beefing up the feeds is the installation of modular blade fuse holders with the spade connectors covered in petroleum jelly to slow down the corrosion.
I did this to my recent purchase to minimise the chance of dodgy connections when I was recommissioning the electrics.
As it happens they all worked after this treatment and I only had to replace two bulbs in the tacho
Using modular single fuse clips allow you to put two double fuse holders in the available space.
Benefits include lower losses, the wider availability and lower cost of replacement fuses.
Generally carefully packing the exposed external parts of multi connectors with jelly slows down degradation of exposed metal, for single wire joins just packing the insulation sleeves is effective and looks tidy.
Packing should be done carefully and with the minimum of material as petroleum jelly is conductive so should be confined within each separated compartment of the connector rather than applied as a handful on the "more is better" principle.
My Ford Cortina has been protected from new in this way and still has functioning electrics, including bright lights, on the original wiring, I updated the fuse box to blade fuses ten years ago.
Oh yes,this does not work on HT leads at the spark plug end as the jelly runs and coats the ceramic with conductive liquid. I only did that once.
Everybody has the right to be stupid now and again and there is no amount of smart that will prevent stupid in my experience.
Also aging and corrosion of the terminals of the fuse box create significant drops; so one solution to beefing up the feeds is the installation of modular blade fuse holders with the spade connectors covered in petroleum jelly to slow down the corrosion.
I did this to my recent purchase to minimise the chance of dodgy connections when I was recommissioning the electrics.
As it happens they all worked after this treatment and I only had to replace two bulbs in the tacho
Using modular single fuse clips allow you to put two double fuse holders in the available space.
Benefits include lower losses, the wider availability and lower cost of replacement fuses.
Generally carefully packing the exposed external parts of multi connectors with jelly slows down degradation of exposed metal, for single wire joins just packing the insulation sleeves is effective and looks tidy.
Packing should be done carefully and with the minimum of material as petroleum jelly is conductive so should be confined within each separated compartment of the connector rather than applied as a handful on the "more is better" principle.
My Ford Cortina has been protected from new in this way and still has functioning electrics, including bright lights, on the original wiring, I updated the fuse box to blade fuses ten years ago.
Oh yes,this does not work on HT leads at the spark plug end as the jelly runs and coats the ceramic with conductive liquid. I only did that once.
Everybody has the right to be stupid now and again and there is no amount of smart that will prevent stupid in my experience.
