Wiring Harness Tags / Labels ?

[Elbert]

question for the automotive wiring crew....

Anyone know of any tags or labels made for wiring that would survive under hood heat? like you might want to label certain wires so you know for sure what they feed?

that can tolerate under hood heat, water, mud ?

 

[caladin]

This has worked so far. Been running it about a year.
Amazon.com - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MR516Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The only annoying thing is it has a - symbol, but no + symbol, You have to upgrade to the more expensive model for that (I just put "hot" on the + labels)
Stick with the Brand Name labels, the generic ones I got are crap. Printing is worse, and they are way harder to put on the wires. Trust me.

Get the case for it, it works great. I keep it out where I can grab it even just to label one wire

Amazon.com - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098JWZC93/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It can do both the heat shrink tubing if you are doing a new harness, and the wire wrap style, to add labels to an existing harness.

 

[OSS]

Scotch 3/4” blue painters tape lasts forever and never will leave a sticky residue. The tape can be removed years later without leaving a gooey mess behind.
Label it with a sharpie.

 

[Elbert]

thanks for the suggestions. I've got a few wires running around under the hood, for various things Ive done over time,.

 

[Idaho Savage]

I've got a few wires running around under the hood, for various things Ive done over time,.

This should be someone's signature in this forum!

 

[2mbb]

I have used the Rhino heat shrink tape for labeling vacuum tubing on my FJ60. I just did this a few months ago but it seems to be working fine.
Previously I had used wire markers such as below for both the FJ60 vacuum tubing (lasted >20 years) and for a homemade harness for another car.

The heat shrink tubing label can get long in length depending on your description. For the wire markers you may need a legend because it would be a hassle to use more than two or three characters

Amazon.com

 

[Elbert]

I also have some type of parasitic draw I need to figure out, and while I"m screwing around also with some battery choices .....all together, its time to put a few labels on a couple of the wires so I recall what's what, if I need to isolate stuff etc. One thing leads to another. I did not mention it here..but this truck has a 5.7 vortec engine swap, so its not just a old school carb I-6 under the hood. Most of the engine stuff is obvious to me or I can figure that out without too much pain....a few add-ins become problematic over time. (lights, radio gear, stereo amp, refrigerator, aftermarket seats with power, wiring to deal with a/c clutch engagement, custom toyota headlight harness, air compressor, additional blue sea fuse panel.... and an aux electric radiator cooling fan. so stuff I should have done initially as to being more organized got ignored in the game plan of the time to just trying to get it operational. Get it done now..with the intent to fix it better later....well later has come and gone.

 

[Elbert]

This should be someone's signature in this forum!

only the best and brightest dare to roam in my shoes it sounded and looked good then.....now , well maybe not so great. You have to give yourself room to improve over time and the bonus is...if you don't set anything on fire or melt anything. is that not what the concept of continuous improvement really is ?

 

[caladin]

Anytime I'm in there diagnosing something and figuring the wires out, or adding new stuff, I try to go ahead and label them real quick, over time it's adding up.

When you're about to label some PO sketchy hackery, it motivates you to clean it up a bit first too...