Water proofing/relocating electrics

[jsttry]

Does anyone have any hints or tips for water proofing their land rovers? I tried a rubber glove over the dizzy but it wasn't quite big enough so have siliconed all the leads and cap for now. Would be interested to know what people have done about relocating the coil and/or water proofing the dizzy/coil/ignition module and any other vulnerable parts.

Cheers

PS sorry for the string of posts, just thought I'd start getting on top of things

[lowbox]

http://www.rhel.co.uk/tomcattech/dizzy.htm

[walker]

I have recently had new leads made up which have very tight end caps, this made a husge difference. I also had a longer HT lead made for the coil and coil is mounted inside.

I now plan to run low pressure air into the dizzy. I couple of people have said this makes a huge difference. If you run an air tank then you can just plumb in a pressure reducer and run a line into the dizzy or you can use an air horn compressor which is low pressure.


One other thing is a tarp over the front of the car. On a recent trip up Walker's track we had a lot of long bogholes with very deep water. Without the tarp the Rangie started missing and spluttering every time. As soon as I put the tarp on it was all good.

[mark4130]

Adam

have you ran air into the dizzy yet?

i am interested in doing this to but dont know where to run the air line into! eg.cap or dizzy body

or anyone else who has done this

thanks mark

[HSV Rangie]

pressurise dizzy.

drill and fit 6mm hose fitting into the dissy body.

run compressed air DRY int this set pressure at around 5-10 psi.

this will keep water out.

use silicone grease or similar on leads. better to use top quality boots.

have fun

Michael.

[mark4130]

Thanks Micheal

when you say DRY do you mean run a water seperator/filter in between the air tank and dizzy?

cheers mark

[HSV Rangie]

yes I always made sure air into dissy was dry as I could reasonably make it.

M

[mark4130]

by using the air horn pump would that eliminate that problem
or will that create moisture too?

mark

[F'n_Rover]

put the dizzy in the bin.

It's the 21st farken century for christ sake.

http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/PHP_Modul ... hp?t=78908

Simon

[shakes]

onya popeye! not everyone here has the time, money, or patience for something like that. but It would be nice...

small zip ties around the lead connections help if ya super paranoid.

I've searched for you

[mark4130]

Cheers Guys.

yeh simon thats a bit full on for me,looks like you need to know what your doing and thats not me.

plenty of ideas now though

thanks