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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 18 2004, 11:12 AM

Does anyone know if POR-15 will damage electrical wiring? I am preping to POR my entire cockpit floor board and am wondering if I need to avoid the wire harness running down the center of the floor toward the engine or if I can paint right over it.

thought I would check here before I call them directly

thx

Posted by: dakotaewing Aug 18 2004, 11:33 AM

Personally, I would avoid doing this...If you EVER have to remove the wiring harness,
I would think you would be screwed..i.e. you would end up having to either rewire, or get a new harness completely....
But that is just MHO...
Thom

Posted by: Jeroen Aug 18 2004, 04:07 PM

Why do people always wanna cut corners when they're doing resto / repair stuff to their cars
It would be very little extra effort now to do the job right, nice and clean
If you don't you'll regret it for as long as you own the car, and you will be the famous DPO once you sell it...

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Levi Aug 19 2004, 12:58 AM

To answer your question, NO it will not damage your wiring.
Now wasn't that easy...

Posted by: jim912928 Aug 19 2004, 05:34 AM

but, think of this. POR dries very hard....so moving it or taking it out at a future date will probably crack it if you paint the entire harness. Likewise if you are tracing anything you'll loose the ability to look at the different colors cause you'll have a nice coat of POR over the entire thing. I'd move it around and paint around it if you don't want to take it out.

Posted by: jr91472 Aug 19 2004, 07:50 AM

Thanks all for the input <_<

I hadn't considered that POR would make the harness unaccessible. But I have no desire to remove and 30+ year old harness - could be just asking for trouble.

will work around it

thx

Posted by: Levi Aug 19 2004, 12:32 PM