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Subject:Re: Fishing wire from courtesy light to behind dash
From:Neil N
Date:Sun, 15 Apr 2018 14:38:58 -0700

Try using #14 solid copper wire as the fish wire. The stuff you find in
residential Loomex or Romex. Shove it up from bottom, attach new wire to be
fished at dome light opening, pull the new wire down. You may find that
removing the door switch provides access to help fish the wires.

Neil.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> On a 91 Westy, I'm having difficulty fishing a wire from the drivers side
> courtesy
> light area through the pillar to the dash.   I've tried using a guitar
> string and 2
> of those long plastic zip ties to get it down the pillar and to the dash
> but I
> cannot see the other end to save my life.   Any tips on this?   I've
> already
> consulted the Samba site but didn't see anything useful....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steven
> 91 Westy
>

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Neil n

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