Battery cable

[colonel mustard]

Hi,
Just running the battery cable, how much of the tail do I need to leave in the boot area?
Thanks

[AndyPen]

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Here is an original 64 SDL - but I'd leave a couple extra inches myself

[colonel mustard]

Many thanks,
Also where the fuel line runs through the boot floor should there be a rubber grommet around this?

[surfblue63]

Yes a grommet should be fitted to prevent the pipe getting fractured due to vibration and rattling in the hole.

[IAIN]

surf's not quite correct. The fuel pipe passes through the boot floor with out a grommet, the edge of the hole is rounded down wards and the fuel pipe is sleeved with a rubber cover on top of the metal braiding.
The grommet is in the other hole next to the pipe which takes the pump wiring and the breather pipe.

[colonel mustard]

Many thanks both

[AndyPen]

I found an original pipe on an old tank the other day - exactly as described

[rogerotto66s]

... The fuel pipe passes through the boot floor with out a grommet, the edge of the hole is rounded down wards and the fuel pipe is sleeved with a rubber cover on top of the metal braiding. ...

What is the trick to putting the fuel line with rubber sleeve through the boot floor?
First few efforts were unsuccessful and just peeled back the metal braiding.

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[whistler]

Put tape around braiding and overlap it a bit.

[Peter Laidler]

Battery cable question. Can I suggest that you leave a tail that enables you to fit a battery with the relevant terminal at the rear of the battery box. This ensures that if you are ever in a hole, then you can, at a push, fit any battery regardless of where the terminals are located.

Just reading that again and....... I hope that it makes sense because it happened to me once

[AndyPen]

I was also reading that the works cars had the battery reversed, so in an accident the terminals were further away from the tank (which had plywood glued to it too).

[rogerotto66s]

Put tape around braiding and overlap it a bit.

Worked like a charm!
Not sure why I did not think of this.
I have done this elsewhere with success!
... onto my next challenge.

[gs.davies]

Sorry to hijack this but the comment about the fuel hose is very helpful!

What’s best to do when the floors been replaced and the fuel pipe hole doesn’t have that rounded edge to it…?

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[AndyPen]

Personally, I'd enlarge the hole and put a grommet in there. The original cars had a putty type stuff squeezed up there to do the same job.

[Peter Laidler]

As above on the basis that you HAVE to protect the hose at all costs. I suppose if you were fitting a lot of new type floors you could easily make a tool that would turn a small flange over

[Andrew1967]

When I enlarged the hole in HOY’s boot floor I used a metal tapered steady bar insert on top and a suitable socket underneath with a 5/16 set screw and basically did the bolt up to partially pull the tapered piece through and hence pull the metal downwards to form the lip. Worked quite well.

With hindsight should have checked this at panel fitting time as would be easier without the subframe in.

[Peter Laidler]

GOOD idea Andy. Simpler than what I was thinking too

[agricola]

of course for fuel there is bulkhead fittings? now not as dear thanks to those pesky Chinese https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361769178879 ... Sw-CpX~~67