So waaay back when, I had a post or two about fabricating a guard for the SDS crank trigger wiring. The purpose of this is to prevent a broken alternator belt from knocking out the wires to the sensor and thus making the big fan out front stop. Later on, when I was working on the baffles, I had to significantly modify that guard, and then it still wasn’t enough once I bent the intake ramp up to the proper angle.
Today started out with planning cable runs under the right side of the engine, but it became clear eventually that I’d be wanting to figure out the sensor wiring run at the same time, which meant finalizing some stuff, including removing more material from that intake ramp and fabricating a new cable guard.
So I went to work. The previous guard was made of aluminum angle, which was kind of a pain to work with. This time, I decided to use some scrap from my first failed panel cut, specifically the 90° bend at the base of the panel. This is still 0.063” alclad, so it’s pretty beefy, and I think perfectly workable for this purpose.
I don’t really have any progress pictures, but suffice it to say there were a couple false starts before I got something I was sort of happy with. Though now that I look at it, I’m second-guessing myself again, and thinking that the opening in the guard to accommodate the wires is way too big. So…it’s entirely possible that I bin this one and start over yet again tomorrow. We’ll see how I feel about it in the morning.
For now, though, here’s the new thing in place alongside the newly-trimmed intake ramp:
