[DeTomaso] Safety Wire 101....

[Sean Korb]

I have to say when I was preparing to wire my ZF, I had envisioned
doing the job similar to the right hand image.  Fortunately I had been
schooled better just before I dropped the ZF pan... and even more
fortunately, the job had been done for me almost 40 years earlier by
the factory... like the picture on the left.  At least, I imagine it
was done by the factory.  The previous owner had it for 25 years
before I did, but he said he had never cracked the transmission.
Someone might have gone in there in the '70s.

sean

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Kirby Schrader
<kirby.schrader at gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed. Definitely better than nothing! After all, the failure mode with the
> ZF (as I understand it since I've never had the problem) is that they bolt
> backs out so far that it gets knocked off by the housing with further damage
> occurring depending on how unlucky you are...
>
> Thanks for the link, Julian.
>
> I never did any research on the technique at all, but my Wilwood brake
> rotors look like picture #1.
> :-)
> Seemed logical to me.
>
> FWIW,
> Kirby


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