pulling loom through chassis

I have ummed-and-arred about whether to pull my new (autosparks) loom through the chassis or use conduit outside the chassis - and am leaning towards the former. However, this presents a few questions
1) direction: i am inclined to pull it from the back to the front
- the connectors at the back are double ones (for onward connection to a towbar) and together they present a sizable profile that i think would be very difficult to thread down and out the chassis.
- So i think i need to bind up the block connectors at the front, and pull them through from the back
2) grommets: regardless of direction, i can't believe the grommets can be pulled through. At the moment they are in place on the loom. I am thinking i cut a line from centre to edge on the grommets a) to remove them b) and to reapply once the cable is in place

any advice?

sprie said:

I have ummed-and-arred about whether to pull my new (autosparks) loom through the chassis or use conduit outside the chassis - and am leaning towards the former. However, this presents a few questions
1) direction: i am inclined to pull it from the back to the front
- the connectors at the back are double ones (for onward connection to a towbar) and together they present a sizable profile that i think would be very difficult to thread down and out the chassis.
- So i think i need to bind up the block connectors at the front, and pull them through from the back
2) grommets: regardless of direction, i can't believe the grommets can be pulled through. At the moment they are in place on the loom. I am thinking i cut a line from centre to edge on the grommets a) to remove them b) and to reapply once the cable is in place

any advice?

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Personally, I wouldn't. It's only going to get in the way and serve as a mud trap

I'd prefer to use some decent protection and run the loom outside...

Or there is this ...

I put mine within the chassis rail, tweren't difficult and it is neat enough. The only bit of the loom that was screwed up was the ends at the lights were ****s in the past have hacked up the connections, easily fixed.
I also rewrapped the existing loom before pulling it through and added a couple of extra cables for accessories and earths

sprie said:

the connectors at the back are double ones (for onward connection to a towbar) and together they present a sizable profile that i think would be very difficult to thread down and out the chassis.

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Are these not the standard lucas bullet connectors? If they are they can be removed as the loom will have the male bullet on it (same as the lights) and all the black tube is is a double female. This makes the back end of the loom much smaller to pull through and also also allows for the gromet to be removed so it does not need to be pulled through he chassis.

Having said the above I would also recommend running it in conduit above the chassis rather than through however. I have done this with both my series and my 110.

BikerB said:

I put mine within the chassis rail, tweren't difficult and it is neat enough. The only bit of the loom that was screwed up was the ends at the lights were ****s in the past have hacked up the connections, easily fixed.
I also rewrapped the existing loom before pulling it through and added a couple of extra cables for accessories and earths

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In the end I decided to pull out through the chassis. Took a few minutes.