Mike,
This is excellent info! I'm going to order them today. I'm hoping to
get the Magnum valve covers, but I just spent too much already on
headers, cat-back, ram-air hood, etc., so I have to wait for the
dress-up stuff.
Thanks again,
Bob C.
>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:53:03 -0500
>From: Michael Clark <mike@snakebite.com>
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: Re[2]: DML: Taylor pictures
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>
>> Great pics! A quick question: How do the vertical looms attach? Are
>> they mounted to the valve cover bolt stems? I have a 98 5.9 w/ JBA
>> headers, and I need looms for MSD 8.5mm wires. These look like they
>> will work for me although I may have to drill them out a bit.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob C.
>
>Bob,
>
>They are 2 piece each. One small part is block shaped and comes with
>a bolt through it. This will take the place of a valve cover bolt.
>Just remove a cover bolt and this will screw down in it's place.
>The part with the holes in it makes the other part. Actually the part
>with the holes is two pieces itself so I guess strictly speaking there
>are 3 pieces to each loom. You tighten down the block piece and then
>take the the other two pieces and clamp them around the wires in the
>appropriate place. The clamp tightens down with two screws with small
>nuts on the opposite side. One screw is longer and the nut on it slips
>into a groove on the block piece and when it is tightened down it holds
the
>two parts secure. Never feels like I'm explaining things clearly --
>some of the simplest things are hard to explain I guess. Been a while
>since I tried ASCII art but here goes. This shows the block with the
>longer bolt through it ( represented by I ) and the loom attached to
>it...
>
> /-------\
> ! __ !
> ! (__) !
> -\I/-----!- !
> - I !- __ !
> - I !-(__) !
> - I -!-------/
> - I -
> - I -
> --I-------
> I
> I
> I
> I
>
>
>Anyway If you are still unclear on how these work, I can take some
>close up photos for you.
>
>I think they will work for the 8.5's but you might have to take just a
>hair off the inside diameter of the holes. Mine are 8mm and they are
>a perfect fit. Once tightened down you can't move the wire through
>the hole but it is not enough to damage or crease the wire.
>
>Also if you have the MP valve covers like I do you will need to cut
>about 1/4 inch off the block pieces to make them shorter. The way
>they came the bolt wouldn't reach far enough to catch threads. But
>this was only because of the thick flange on the MP covers. The stock
>covers will be no problem. Cutting the blocks down took me all of 10
>minutes to do all 6 and clean things up to look nice.
>
>
>---Mike, near Houston.---
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