Wing wiring

[gbarrier]

Ok gurus, help me out here. I would like to pull the wiring out of the wing and replace it. I have them unhooked from nav lights and strobes. Found a couple tie wraps in last two outboard bays and removed. Here's my question, should they pull or are there tie wraps all along where I can't get to.

[maules.com]

Not so much tiewraps as plastic screwed down loops.

[gbarrier]

Well then I guess I should ask "what would Jeremy do". Guessing I'll just run some new down the holes in the nose ribs.

[maules.com]

You can run a length of plastic rigid water line through the nose ribs then run the wires through a length of 1/4" tubing and insert through the larger tube then remove the larger tube, voila, protected electric wireing with a tiny weight gain.

[gbarrier]

Thanks. I've done the plastic pipe trick a couple of times when we installed the plastic tubing for AOAs. I'll be running four pieces of shielded cable so 1/4 won't work but perhaps a piece of half inch pex.

[Steelroamer]

I just replaced my wingtip and landing lights this last spring. while I had the wingtip off i wrapped the new wires and tapped them to a piece 1X1 aluminum angle and fed the angle all the way to the cab and then grabbed the wires and removed the angle. I then fed just the angle in from the other wingtip taped the wire too it and pulled it out to the wingtip. I tried tubing originally but found it was too flimsy, the angle was much more rigid and I was able to twist it to get it to go through the holes in the ribs.

not sure if this helps but it is what I found and it probably only took 20 minutes to complete, not including wingtip removal.

the old wire is still in there.

Roamer

[Chris in Milwaukee]

Speaking of wing wiring, did I read in an archived post somewhere that landing light wiring exists in both left and right wings from the factory, even though I only have one in the left wing? Or did I dream that?

[maules.com]

Wire should be in there.