For my future swap, i'm still deciding whether i want to wire tuck or not.
It looks very clean..i mean VERY CLEAN...compared to the normal cluttered engine bay.
SO i was wondering, if it really is worth doing;

like, suppose a problem comes up, i have to dig out the wires?

maybe someone can give me their take on it..?

thanks

 

that's pretty much the take dude. If you want a nice engine bay you have to be committed to digin out the wires if there is a problem. You hit the only pros and cons that there are.

 

It all depends on how much stuff you tuck!! If you tuck all your fuse boxes and such, then things can get complicated!! If it were me, I would come up with a way to keep all the nessacary things in the bay, while tucking all the wires leading up to them!! If you take your time and do it right the first time, you should not have a problem!!

 

I think they look clean when doing right and everything is tucked.

But if something goes wrong, you're screwed. Just clean your engine bay up and make everything look neat and tidy.

 

the above people dont have tucked bays.thats obvious i have tucked a da bay as well as a eg bay for me it makes things alot easier to work on and makes things look hella clean.its really very easy to do.once you get into it and tuck the bay you will see why things are alot easier.there is no way to tuck the bay wires without putting the fuse box under the dash.its either all or none!!there are varying degrees of i would start with putting the battery in the back then, i would tuck the light and ac harness on the passenger side and then i would start with the engine harness and fuse box relays etc.it really doesnt take a guru to do this.i just started tucking!!!!let me know if you need specifics

 

Glad someone made a post about this... but I want to do a simple tuck on my 95 LS... and I am wanting to build a LS motor, so when I swap that motor in I wanna try to do a tuck...

Like do you have to unsheaf all the engines harness and re lay it out to your liking?

How hard is it to hide the fuse box in an LS?

same thing with the headlight harness and ac harness... how hard is it?

Any tutorials or write ups that people know about?

 

well, there are a few things you can do, without a full tuck, like on a DA, you can

run the clutch cable under the IM
remove the ps
remove the header heat sheild
remove the a/c
routh the brake booster vacuum line under the master cylinder

and it will already start being cleaner,

 

I've read that removing the PS in car that requires it puts a lot of stress on the rack and pinion, is that correct?

 

i cant see it putting more strain on the rack and pinion, but i'd be interested to see any theories on it that say so. the rack and pinion performs the same job whether or not it's hydrolic assist or manual and the unit is designed to perform under the same amount of stresses whether it's fluid or manually operated.

i can however confirm that the actual steering gear is often a higher ratio in vehicles with power steering. the design assumes that the hydrolic operation will always be the operational method and therefore they're not concerned about how much force it would put on the driver should the power assist not be there. so removing PS from a vehicle originally equipped with it could make it harder to muscle the vehicle through a turn than a typical non-PS equipped vehicle.