Wire Nuts (factory) vs splice

[mleekamp]

We just picked up a new Class C (see sig). Out of the half doz TT's we used to have and now this C, the wiring for the tanks always seems half done from the factory. The small wires are connected with wire nuts vs. a sealed splice.

I've fixed my units in the past, but is it necessary? Do any of you fix the sometimes weird stretched wiring, wire nut connections that seem like a 15 year old in hurry did them?

[nayther]

Ralph Cramden wrote:
Now if it had coroplast they could have hidden even more shoddy assembly from view, including Jacob Yoders half eaten ham sammich.

Been wondering that on my new one too. How much crappy work is hidden from view above that ****. First "enclosed" underbelly rig I've owned.

[mike-s]

Just get some liquid electrical "tape" and cover anything which is suspect. Way easier than redoing stuff.

[Ralph_Cramden]

ScottG wrote:
I crawled around under our new TT and siliconed a bunch of splices for lights. Otherwise they would have filled with rain and coroded.
They should do things better.

That may delay the inevitable, but even the supposedly waterproof version of the scothlock will fail, especially when road salt is involved. The light wiring is one thing, the brake wiring another. Our 17 Rockwood (no underbelly coroplast) did not have one single wire tie on anything. The wiring for both lights and brakes hung down a good 4" lower than the bottom of the frame and half the grommets were missing where it passed through stamped cross members....pretty piss poor. Now if it had coroplast they could have hidden even more shoddy assembly from view, including Jacob Yoders half eaten ham sammich.

[ScottG]

I crawled around under our new TT and siliconed a bunch of splices for lights. Otherwise they would have filled with rain and coroded.
They should do things better.

[Ralph_Cramden]

Those are not wire nuts....they're resistors that are part of the KIB system and are supposed to make it operate as designed, which it may do about 10% of the time. If you want accurate monitors the name of the company is Garnet Instruments LTD and their see level system.

[azrving]

Just the tanks? I thought everything on them was that way.

[Mortimer_Brewst]

DutchmenSport wrote:
If everything is working, why mess with it?

It’s a preventative thing. For example, we had our dog fixed even though everything was working fine.

[DutchmenSport]

If everything is working, why mess with it?

[time2roll]

No. For non-critical items I just leave it. If one fails then yes I would fix all related items properly.

[midnightsadie]

he was 13teen ,fresh out of the barn, your right slab it together get it down the line.