Tried walking away a couple times but didn't help. Sorry to hear about your hand, that sounds like a bad deal

@@STREETMACHINETV All in one's attitude, when dealing with life challenges. A fact you are well aware of Scotty, family means everything.😉 Burned hand means nothing, family means everything. 🙂 Consistency, determination, and absolute faith in ones self to overcome all life challenges is the key for me. Look for your key driving force, you got this spagetti by the undercariage. Balls up job done😊

Thanks mate

@19:40

Someone remembers :)

It came with two installation tools and ended up breaking both

@@STREETMACHINETV yeah the lower quality ones seem to be real garbage. Hopefully you have better luck with the new one!

Yep, that's the plan

@@STREETMACHINETV those DYMO labels are thermal printed, so if you clear heat shrink over them they will turn black, but try it any way,

@mickbastin5401 hmmm, didn't think of that. I'll do a test

No they won't. My Dymo uses the plastic tape which work fine when heat shrunk over. The paper tape type will turn black most likely.@@greencheeksconure

The temptation to set fire to the workshop was strong

With wiring you have to break it down into little bits and do them one at a time or you'll go insane. On (for example) an LS you'd be like "okay I need four ignition wires, four injector leads, the throttle body connector, the water temp sensor, and the crank angle sensor for the driver's side engine loom, so I'll start with the ignition wires, that's eight wires in four pairs, get them trimmed to length, connectors fitted, heatshrunk and sleeved, and labelled." Get each part done on its own, double check all your work with a multimeter to be absolutely sure, then bundle them into that half of the engine loom and route and secure it. Then you break it down again for the passenger side of the engine loom - the other bank of ignition wires and injector leads, the knock sensors, the oil pressure and temp sender, the manifold pressure sender etc. etc. Then you do the "front end" loom - lights, indicators, horn, alternator, starter, a/c compressor etc. etc. All that runs back to the firewall connectors and boom, you've done the hardest part of any car build with absolute minimal stress and hassles because you've approached it the same way you would an engine build - looked at as one big job an engine build would be very intimidating, but because you know it's actually hundreds of little steps all done one at a time that you can double-check as you go, it doesn't worry you. Drawing up a "loom map" that shows which wires (colour, gauge, and connector pin #) go where that you can constantly refer to during the loom build is also very helpful. You also have an excellent troubleshooting resource in future.

@@STREETMACHINETV I totally understand 🤣

It makes sense now how Scotty has patience for wiring, and a love for quality tools. The mechanical side? Here's the big shifter, tighten loosen round it off, cross thread stripped thread, bash it off. Haha, just joking! Sort of, from a shit stirring fitter/machinist!

I used to be in NDC and did a lot of the major Sydney exchange cutovers south of the Parramatta River, when they went from Crossbar to System 12. Also did most of the Sydney Olympic remote sites before taking a voluntary redundancy after the Olympics and walking straight into a job at Alcatel.

@@STREETMACHINETV It’s funny how it comes full circle, we’re starting to decommission the copper side of the exchanges now, getting ready for them to turn them off between 2025-27 with only NBN remaining!

@@unansol oh wow, because everything is either 5G Mobile or NBN now? That's crazy!

@@STREETMACHINETV it will be soon! I’d better get to watching the new video. I’m looking to get out soon and would love to do something similar to you, if you’re ever looking for a lackey let me know! Love the channel! 👍

Na I'm good :p

LOL

@TheNuggetProject haha 👍

The Haltech 1JZ loom is great

Yeah, I got the heat shrink and the second plug from them.

@@STREETMACHINETV yeah plenty of products from PAT is good but you can't skimp on a connector like that

Thanks for the list and I did check all of those things and even used silicon spray (but not the grease) on the pins. I've talked to several people in the industry since and they all agree that particular type of connector needs to burn in hell.

@@STREETMACHINETV "burn in hell hahahaha had me cracked up"

They're about 1800km away

@@STREETMACHINETV sounds like a weekend type of catch-up

@@Peter-yt7xm Better to be workmates And be friends. first than to be friends and work with each other because it never lasts

​@@Peter-yt7xmI don't think so, woody has known Al since he was a teenager, I'm pretty sure they co own the skid factory too. Unless you've personally been told that Woody's paid a wage I think they share income based on the system they have.

Dunno, it's pretty hard to find a certified mechanic who is also a videographer and editor... I guess if TSF got big enough to have more than 2 people in the team maybe. Also whilst Al obviously owns Allied, we don't really know what the relationship is for TSF, they could be partners.

Yeah, there we're a couple missed opportunities here

It wasn't really a tension problem, it was more of an issue of pins just not seating into the connector even when I had a straight shot into the hole. The new connector had no such issues

@@STREETMACHINETV ahh so just a quality issue.

@@DodgyBrothersEngineering I think so

Not my preferred place and even worse when the car is on the hoist

I did do that

Yeah the lockdown series was great. It's just this plug that's not playing the game, the pins won't seat. Two days I wasted on it, the new plug was re-terminated and pined in two hours

​@STREETMACHINETV Are the pins sized/specific to the style of plug? This is my experience but I'm a fitter/machinist not a sparky, only seen it not done it myself.

Loving the build btw, I'm glad I didn't go the 1uz after seeing yours tho

It has been more painful than we thought it would be

Yeah, it's getting relocated

I'm sure Bill would, but he's got plenty of stuff going on, plus I'm willing to give it a shot. It's just a shame that connector didn't want to play the game

Nah, not for this car

Different connectors back then, lots of Krone blocks and solder blocks before that

It was Telecom when I first joined, and then it became Telstra. Back in my dad's day, it was Post Master General or PMG

@@STREETMACHINETV I never knew it was called that before telecom wow. I still call that blue and yellow rope telecom rope haha.

@STREETMACHINET P ublic M oney G rabbers

@arffadailey8055 haha, phones were alot cheaper back then because the telecommunications network just needed to pay its own way. Nowadays it's all about profits 📈

I'm not sure what that has to do with the wiring, but if you're saying I should change it while I'm under the dash, yeah sure.

Do vr commodores have them?

Missed opportunity

It was both. It was Telecom when I joined, and Telstra when I left

Telecom when I first started and I was there for the transition into Telstra

Valvoline sent us so much, not sure what they though we were going to do with it

Obviously you adjust individual lengths as you work your way through

@@STREETMACHINETV sorry mate, I thought you might have just cut them all the same length and thats why it was hard work for you

@@DarrenBoxhall nah, cut them all to start and adjust them individually to suit

@@STREETMACHINETV forgive me for doubting 😅

I wish. Need to get me an intern that'll work for free.

@@STREETMACHINETV carnage workshop youth traineeship program. Come in and learn automotive wiring-it’ll be fun and exciting 😂

Or the pin refuses to seat

@@STREETMACHINETV And they're effing expensive if you screw one up (we get ours from the importer and the price of pins if bullshit!!)