Ok, lets hear all the secrets you use to fish wires threw the pipes of your frame . Kevin
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Posts: 241 (04/06/08 6:11 PM) |
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jpswino |
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Posts: 737 (04/06/08 6:21 PM) |
Use a coat hangar with a piece of string attached. Fish through. Tie to wire end and pull through. Works everytime.
"In the wind, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind"...now I just gotta get some.
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Posts: 525 (04/06/08 6:38 PM) |
I use compressed air to blow a string through (just block off any holes that will divert the flow of air away from the one you want the string to exit), then I
use that to either pull the wire through, or pull a leader through, which is usually a piece of bicycle brake cable (the inside wire only, of course).
I olny the wire cable when pulling a number of wires through at the same time. I have found string has a tendency to break on tight corners if there is any resistance to the wire moving through. I used this method to pull the wire harneses for a set of chromed harley clone controls through a set of LA choppers knockoff z-bars on my bike. talk about a bitch of a job |
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Posts: 1616 (04/06/08 6:54 PM) |
I've done pretty much the opposite of Chopperfreak, but the very same principle. I use a shopvac to suck the string through, then use the string to pull
the wires.
It was Honda first, all through the middle, and if I have my way, till the end as well.
Most people say what they'll do. Very few actually do what they say. |
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stubbysteve |
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Posts: 134 (04/06/08 9:11 PM) |
hey now there is secrete #1 told.......lol.......houndog
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Sasquatch |
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Posts: 2693 (04/06/08 10:40 PM) |
Same method as hounddog .........................................
Only Bikers understand why dogs love to stick their heads out the car window................. 
When I die,I want to go quietly in my sleep like my Grandfather......  ...Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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Gouge Eye |
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Posts: 287 (04/07/08 8:50 AM) |
weve ran string thru like 150-200 of conduit in sum warehouses in Ft Worth with conduit guns... thats where we got the idea of just tyin string on a small sponge ball,
stuff that thing in the frame, and put compressed air to it... course ya gotta fish it out wherever ya need it.... but it works like a charm.....
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Posts: 88 (04/07/08 12:17 PM) |
I used very thin welding rod to do mine And fished the rod through before painting so I didnt booger up the paint later poking around in the holes, just
attached wires after painting and pulled. Worked like a charm
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04/07/08 12:19 PM.
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Lady Dr |
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Posts: 1118 (04/07/08 1:18 PM) Senior Member |
I fish .020 stainless wire through the frame and pull the wire with that. It won't break like string.
"The Lady" and "Godzilla"
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boogieman |
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Posts: 1347 (04/07/08 5:59 PM) |
You could use "beading wire" lol my wife would love me for that!
"A Chopper is the final romantic expression that is left in this country. Obviously the frontier is gone. The cycle is the one thing that
you can build from nothing, just a basket, and make into something very beautiful and really put yourself into it." -Cliff Vaughs
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tatanka |
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Posts: 3210 (04/08/08 4:11 PM) G.O.T.F. Member |
I use a small cable to "fish" my wires thru.....get it at Lowe's or Home Depot.
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