Pulling cables/wires etc. (How to)

**Cane Pole** · 05-06-2009, 02:34 PM

Picture is worth a thousand words. I am adding a water pressure gauge, but the procedure is the same for wires or cables, etc.

Get the kinks out.Kinky cables hang on stuff and make pulling difficult. I just stretched this plastic tubing between 2 chairs and let it stay long enough to get most of the kink out. You can speed the process up with a hair dryer.

Tape these together. It is best to have someone feed the stuff, but if you take time, you can do it alone. Put a coast of Vaseline on the tape for easy pull. It you bind up, back off, and try pulling from each end to reposition cable. Do not force as you will pull the string out. Take your time.

Push hose thru the engine compartment access. Grease the hose with Vaseline. Push hose with hands first, it it doesn't go, then use pliers. You may have to back out and jiggle cables some if the hose comes to a dead stop.
Vaseline makes it slide right in...

**TnT** · 05-06-2009, 08:30 PM

Good info...Thx Cane Pole

**Crappiekiller3** · 05-06-2009, 11:27 PM

Up here in the "frozen tundra" I've replaced the gauge twice.
What happens is in the fall, when I winterize the boat, even
though it is stored in the garage, there is always some water left
in the copper line that freezes and breaks the gauge. I don't feel
like crawling under the dash(which requires some flex that I don't
have) and undoing the nut on the gauge every fall. So I capped it off
and look back now and then to make sure the motor is "peeing" good.

**PawPaw Gene** · 05-07-2009, 04:59 AM

Tom I just went through that this past Saturday while installing the fishfinder I won here on CDC. Some one was kind enough to put a pull rope from the front to the rear but some other idiot came along and tie wrapped it tight with the existing cable and wire bundle making it useless. I had to fish another pull line though which took about 3 hours. I ready for next time.

I also question your use of Vaseline on tubing. If it's rubber the Vaseline could cause it to deteriorate not the case if the tube is plastic. They make a product just for that use, electricians use it all the time.

"gene"

**creekslick** · 05-07-2009, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by PawPaw "gene"

Tom I just went through that this past Saturday while installing the fishfinder I won here on CDC. Some one was kind enough to put a pull rope from the front to the rear but some other idiot came along and tie wrapped it tight with the existing cable and wire bundle making it useless. I had to fish another pull line though which took about 3 hours. I ready for next time.

I also question your use of Vaseline on tubing. If it's rubber the Vaseline could cause it to deteriorate not the case if the tube is plastic. They make a product just for that use, electricians use it all the time.

"gene"

Here is the link to it.
Ideal Wire Pulling Lubricant

**Billbob** · 05-07-2009, 08:36 AM

dish soap will work and cheap

**ready2fish** · 05-07-2009, 09:01 AM

great info, thanks for taking the time to help others in the future

**Cane Pole** · 05-07-2009, 09:20 AM

I know about the cable grease. Not many folks keep it on hand. I used Yellow and Blue professionally. Small amt of Vaseline won't hurt. If petroleum hurt rubber too much, my old Johnson woulda quit running 20 years ago.

It stayed soaked in oil. The tubing is plastic.
I believe most of the rubber in outdoor products is synthetic (neoprene) and
Vaseline won't hurt it. I am no expert.

Don't use Vaseline on condoms.

Soap will work.

**woody123** · 05-07-2009, 02:05 PM

If dealer didn't leave a pull rope, find an old throttle cable to use as a fish tape, or and old steel whip CD antenna , it works great too.

**hardhead** · 05-07-2009, 04:40 PM

I use an old ugly stick fishing rod. Slide it through where you want th wire to go and ty-wrap the cable or wire to the eye on the end.

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