No heat shields on new Beru's wires?
 

Hello all,

I'm tempted to get new wires as a 200K maintanance replacement. However, the Beru set (and all others offered by FastLane) does not seem to have the heat shield boots on them. From looking at the originals, the shields do not seem to be re-useable. Are they absolute neccessary items?

Has any one got and installed the Beru set? Do they fit properly (same lengths as the originals with labeled cylinder numbers)? I'm not feeling ease leaving the wires hanging loose in the engine compartment (hot) like that.

Frank.

What are you talking about when you say heat shield? The Beru set that I purchased did have the metal heat shield at the plug end of each wire.

Are you talking about the black plastic the wraps the 4 wires together? The one on the left is about 8-10 inches long, the one on the right is longer. If so, I don't think these act as a heat shield. I think there only purpose is to bundle the wires together. You could always use wire ties to bundle the 4 wires.

But if you want to recreate the OEM look, I was able to reproduce these by purchasing 1.5" heat shrink tubing. I then pushed each wire through individually and using a heat gun shrunk the tubing down. The 1.5" tubing shrunk to the same size as the original (not completely tight). It took a little care with the heat gun to get the tubing to shrink without causing wrinkles. I was able to purchase the tubing from Fry's.

I'm looking for a source for cylinder number tags to put on each end of the wires. I'm sure someone online sells them. The probably won't match the OEM exactly.
~Dave

All of these wires show metalboots:
http://catalog.eautopartscatalog.com/mercedesshop/sophio/wizard.jsp?partner=mercedesshop&clientid=catalog.mercedesshop&baseurl=http://catalog.peachparts.com/&cookieid=1QO10BT651QU180EM7&year=1986&make=MB&model=560-SEL-001&category=F&part=Ignition+Wire+Set

I purchased a set of the Beru's last year from a WEB provider that gets their parts from World Parts - same provider that 99% of all Web part seller's source from.

Metal ends looked about the same as the original factory Beru wires, BUT the wire portion was no longer metal as the originals were.