If I had an unrestored car, with an old wire harness I would certainly check
all of the wiring
that travels under the car , along the frame areas. My White and black
wire coming from the
cut off switch in the trunk had grounded out under the car from some POs
incident. Also my
red wires going to the head light switch were fried from a short in that
circuit.
FWIW, I now use that white and black wire that runs to the trunk for my
third brake light. Its
already in the wire loom and sure eliminates the hassle of running a new
wire. I use a new
"green twist knob battery cut off switch" to make life a hole lot easier.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Schauss" <rpschauss at gmail.com>
To: <gardner5 at comcast.net>
Cc: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Inline fuses
> On my BJ7, I have two inline fuses. One is on the wire which runs
> from the headlight switch to the tail lights and dashboard lights.
> The other one is in the circuit which feeds the overdrive relay. The
> idea of the second one is to prevent to overdrive solenoid from
> burning out if the cutoff switch for the pull-in winding fails.
>
> I have considered putting fuses in the headlight circuit but the
> thought of loosing my headlights suddenly had detered me so far.
>
> HTH,
> Peter Schauss
> 1963 BJ7
> 1980 MGB
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:41 AM, <gardner5 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Any recommendations on areas to install inline fuses in a BN2?B The
>> smoke
>> billowing from the boot of a friends BN2 due to an issue with the license
>> plate bulb has got me thinking.
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