Heat shrink tubing- weather tight seal

**Rell** · 10-30-2012, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by sebberry

Why not use some heat shink butt connectors? http://shop.genuinedealz.com/Marine%...Butt%20Splice/

Knew about them, but as I stated everything is crimped already and I already have a LOT of regular heat shrink so I would like to use some of it up before I go buying a bunch of adhesive lined tubing.

I already decided on what I'm going to do, thanks for all the suggestions everyone.

**turbochris** · 01-01-2013, 10:35 AM

I use hot glue it reflows when you shrink the tube. About soldering connections- don't let the solder wick down the wire, the wire will get stiff and break.

**GUS** · 01-15-2013, 08:12 AM

I guess we are kind of doing the same thing, I have rebuilt a few harnesses for Mercedes and I use basically what has been suggested, heatshrink tube with heatglue on the inside, they do come in different thickness, thickest I use the tube material is about 2 mm after shrunk.

If anyone is interested it can be followed here:
http://longway.to/mbsl60072/

And yes, it is a 7,2l V12....