DAMN!! F$%#

OK, so I'm removing the wiring loom from the car, pull the last little bit through the windscreen pilllar (A Pillar??) and snap, I snapped off some wires inside the pillar. Is there anything I can do apart from cutting a hole and welding it up?

You could try getting one of those long flexible grabber thingo's from bunnings or your local super-bahn-co.

If that doesn't work leave them there... they're not going to do any harm as long as they aren't in the way and the new wires that go past them are shelded.

dewey

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Well I think they will be in the way to feed the new loom through (not that I'm anywhere near that stage). I could just run the new loom up the other side though yeh? I'm mainly worried about the stuff virbrating in there, I'm aiming to make this nice and quiet (on the inside anyway)

get an old fishing rod and push it out with that.

cheers

aaron

Should have tied some cord (venetian blind type) to the old wires before you pulled them out and that would have left a pull through to pull the new ones back.

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Forget the fishing, rope, bulldosers, etc.
U need to get scissors and a big screwdriver or prying bar.

Now cut the headlining back just enough to get the pry bar in and start to bend the stuff out of the pillar so you can finish takign the loom out.

Finished product; bent A pillar-complete wiring loom.

Did you remember to undo the interior light wire first??

I'm afraid the only way is probably going to be headliner removal...

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

i remember doing this with a mates Fiat 124, but the wires would not come through at all. This was coz the previous owner had bogged the A-pillar and the wire were stuck in it. No i mean the whole thing. There was no metal at all on the outside, and they had gone to the trouble of filing it to look like the metal contours should before they painted it.

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I has 3 Fiat 124 coupes, sold the 1st when it rusted, then cut up the 2nd to fix the 3rd. As you do..
Anyway the LF guard had had a bit of a shunt sometime and the shape was a bit dodgy, so we bogged it. The spraypainter/panelbeater christened it `a sculpture in bog'..

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sounds like every other 124 i've ever seen. my mate has been at it for 13 years now, and theres still more bog than metal

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There is no headlining or any interior left in the car. I was pulling the loom out so I wouldn't have anything in the way so I could clean it all up ready for painting. The was nothing attached to the wire except maybe a plastic connector to go onto a rear light fitting or something.