Extending Wires In Loom Question

[boostn0199]

Just rerunning my loom at the moment and need to extend it and a question on this particular wire. The big brown wire in the pic has a black and white wire inside it and also bare wire. My question is if I dont have a wire like that to extend it with do I just run 3 separate wires 1 to the black 1 to the white and 1 to the bare?

[Duncan]

yes, that's right, 3 seperate wires.

But, generally wires with an external unsheathed wire are sheilded (eg CAS wires), so make sure each new wire is kept well apart, and well insulated, eg lots of heatshrink around each.

[boostn0199]

Thanks. But what do you mean keep all 3 wires well apart? Cant i wrap The loom up after? Or just make sure there well insulated. Is that the cas wire?

[Tommy Kaira RL]

those 2 wires inside the shield are most probably comms related. If you don't shield them properly you could get noise in. And noise affects the data that its sending. If you strip them back further you will find they are twisted. You can buy twisted pair shielded cable from any electrical shops.

[boostn0199]

I traced it back to the HICAS system which makes sense since it relies on pulses to get the steering angle so I just discarded it since im not running hicas.