A tip I've found very helpful........
Been doing rewire work on a '64B, and called on my neighbor (an
electronics designer) for a lesson on using a multi-meter and running down
a fault. After about an hour of underdash work, I had to leave for a short
while. While I was gone, he had taken my Haynes manual to the local
Kinko's copy store and ran off about 50 copies of the wiring diagrams, as
well as enlargements of the specific sections that we were working. He
noted that you take the copies and use a highlighter for the wiring routes
you are presently working on. Found it much easier to hold a single sheet
rather than the whole manual while laying with my back on the floorpan.
Use a flexible refrigerator magnet to hold the sheet in place for
convenient viewing when working on other areas of the car. Best 3 dollar
timesaver I have ever spent.
Chris Rogers
'64B
Trevor Boicey wrote:
> dresden@tiac.net wrote:
> > I'm pretty fluent with wiring, so I don't need an
> > "easy reader" version, as long as all the info is there. Thanks.
>
> Same diagrams, haynes have them all. Mostly accurate in
> either case, but you sometimes have to interpolate. The haynes
> shows "1970" and "1970/71" and my 1970 MGB is somewhere
> in between the two.
>
> BTW they aren't "schematics", they are wiring
> diagrams.
>
> Quite a bit different, and different uses as well. In a nutshell,
> schematics are meant to show how circuits work, so things like grounds
> are not explicitly wired they just shown as "grounded", power isn't
> shown where it is sourced it is just "labelled" where it is
> injected and so on.
>
> Wiring diagrams show where all the wires are connected, even ones
> that are schematically redundant.
>
> I would like to get a "schematic" actually, it would save a bit
> of time. I am used to reading schematics so when I see something
> like "electric oil pressure gauge reads 20psi without engine
> running" I can look at the circuit and figure out what would
> cause that. With a wiring diagram, it doesn't show as
> clearly how things work, just how they are installed.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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