Spark Plug Wire Organizer
Mark SimpsonDescription
Organizing and securing the wires in the engine compartment of your classic car is essential for several reasons, and it offers various benefits. Classic cars can have complex electrical systems that can become disorganized and problematic over time. Here are some reasons and benefits of organizing the wires in the engine compartment:
Safety: Proper wire organization reduces the risk of electrical fires and shorts. Old or frayed wires can pose a significant safety hazard.
Reliability: Well-organized wires are less likely to become damaged or disconnected, ensuring that all electrical components of the car function as intended.
Ease of Maintenance: When the wires are organized, it is easier to access and troubleshoot electrical components, which simplifies maintenance and repairs.
Aesthetics: Neatly organized wires improve the visual appeal of the engine compartment, making the classic car look better and more authentic.
Prevention of Interference: Proper routing and securing of wires can prevent interference with moving engine parts or hot surfaces, reducing the risk of damage.
To achieve these benefits, classic car owners and restorers often use wire looms, cable ties, insulating materials, and routing diagrams to keep the wires in order and protect them from heat, moisture, and abrasion. Proper organization and maintenance of the wires in the engine compartment are crucial for preserving the functionality, safety, and aesthetics of a classic car.
In this video we Join Mark Simpson as he demonstrates a quick and easy way to organize the spark plug wires of your classic car. Mark admits he learned this technique years ago from an old race car builder, but he still uses it today to keep his wires cleanly routed and secure.
Keeping the wires organized and safely routed in your engine compartment is essential to not only making your car look good, but protecting them from getting damaged either against the headers or exhaust manifolds or even the linkage in your uh throttle mechanisms and, and various other components under the hood. So, an old trick that uh old racer gave me was on how to uh make your own quick spark plug wire organizer and keeping your spark plugs sort of team and not like falling all over the place is not, is not that difficult, but, you know, a little time is well spent in this regard. And, you know, the, the racers always wanted to make sure that they, they could take things apart quickly. So they usually refrained from using uh dedicated wire organizers because that's just another thing they have to keep track of. So they would often build stuff out of just zip ties. So he showed me this trick to uh make your own wire spark plug wire organizers years ago. And uh it's one that I've used, you know, I'm using a different color. I'm using a white spark plug. I'm using white zip ties right now just to uh make it easier for you to see. But basically, what we did is we started by putting one zip tie as a loop around all of the wires. Now, we are going to separate them with separate ZIP ties between each one and this will all come together. Certainly look like it makes sense here in a second. Ok. Now, we have spark plug, our zip tie between each of the pairs of wires and one around the whole mass. And we'll start by tightening things up a little tighter And we get this name, one tightened up and we'll trim off our tails. And in a matter of moments now, I have all my spark plug wires are neatly organized as we route them down. We can put a couple more of these in if we need to. Like I said, I normally make these matching color to the uh spark plug wires themselves, but in this case, you know, I did them in white just so it's a little easier to see. And once, you know, if we ever need to service the spark plug wires, it's just a matter of cutting one zip tie and now we have them all free again.
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