Dash gauges...china stuff autozone

I used Dorman Braided Loom to cover the wires. I found it at O'Reilly's. It is looks similar to the original braided covering on the original harness, except it is black plastic. More expensive, but much nicer to work with that the corrigated plastic stuff. It is split do you do not have to feed the wire through it. You slip it over the wires, and it is easy to route a wire out the side if necessary.

I also covered the water temp and oil pressure lines with it. I had to get a new temp gauge that has plastic line to the probe.

Only thing I don't like about it, the ends fray when you cut it. I used a soldering gun to melt the ends after cutting.

Time will tell if mice like it, but I have not had any issues with mice and wires. I do have trouble with them building nests in air cooled engines. Search for rolling log mouse trap to help with mouse control. Menards has them on sale now.

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And many times, if it was made in USA and a company closes the last North American factory, the equipment gets shipped overseas to be made and then imported.
So the same machinery can crank out quality if the company wants to sell quality.
So it comes down to better training and or better raw materials.

I recently installed 2 cat doors in my house. One door allows cats in the garage, the other door lets the cat exit the garage to go outside. One cat hunts mice during the day.
The other cat hunts the night shift.

So far this fall, my cats have caught 3 mice. Bad news, the cats like to bring the dead mice inside to show us their catch.

If I had a big mouse problem in the pole barn, I would install another cat door.

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