looming problem!!

Hi all,
back from work after a week away, went to start landy...........dead as a do-do!!
jumped battery of car and fine. Was suspecting the battery until i cleaned her. headr fizzing under bonet. opened and traced the noise to part of the loom near the air filter coming towards the front! Offending fizzing bit was the loom running over a metal plate attached to the rocker cover. was no insulation on the loom so seems to have been melted (big brown wire and small one) so i assume thats shorted the battery? i have taped it as best i cud, anyone know of a sound way of cutting out the melted bit and sorting it easily??
cheers all.

Ey up fella

I'm assuming you've taped it up with some decent electricians tape? Any old tape will do as a quick fix as long as the wires insulated. I'm really lazy so if the wires don't look damaged I'd probably just insulate with good tape. If you want to replace a section of wire Its best to have the same colour and gauge wire, they are thick for a reason, which is loads of current being drawn through.

I've just been tracing a bad earth that stranded me miles from home. What a rats nest of wires these land rovers have, i'm surprised that the thing works at all.

Good luck

Cheers Dirty,
Aye i taped it up with electrical tape as best i cud and seems to have cured it .......for now lol. I think its why the guy i bought it off sold it, thinkin it had a major snag. good job i hosed the engine down or i never would have known about it until the loom had burnt through itself!!
Stupid place to run the loom over anyway i think?
anyway alls well now, will put a few piks up today sometime after ive done me waxoiling, the joy of being covered in black spots lol.

That wire is a Perm Live from your battery 12v + to your alternator alternator. small wires are also probably alternator related. I had this same problem behind the engine the harness fell out of its harness clips after offroad comp but it resulted in an engine fire which I luckily put out and disconnected the battery in time. (P.S powder extinguishers Suck!) Bring back haylon!

Please Dont just tape it up! If I was you use some decent insulation tape to insulate it then buy some decent split conduit flexi pipe to go over it then tape that periodically along the whole length. As per landrover standard.

Then you gotta ask yourself:

Why was it rubbing' on a raw edge? Something is wrong, Land Rover couldn't have made it like that! Mabe something in missing a clip? Mabe it would be wise to attach a harness clip to the edge of what ever it has been rubbing on for your new conduit to run in and to move it away from the raw edge.

After my little fire I have installed a battery isolation switch capable of handling 500A @12v (enough for my winch) for quick isolation just incase. If you decide to do this aswell it is worth remembering that if driving and you isolate the battery (i.e switch the switch) your engine will still continue to run as the alternator will feed your ignition/inj pump and will damage your alternator. It is only a battery isolator. a;though you can buy battery cut out switches aswell cheaply Jai