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Max is not wrong.  I had my Austin Healey in pieces so the wiring
harness was out.  My wife and I used soft toothbrushes to clean the
harness (car had been in a flood and had mud all over the place) then I
buffed all the connector ends.  The car when finished ran like a Swiss
sewing machine and never missed an electrical beat. It won first in the
1989 Conclave for Austin Healeys - the Mecca for A-Hs
Oh happy days.
Barrie
On 1/16/2020 5:04 PM, Max Heim via Mgs wrote:
> Thatâ??s admirable, but letâ??s keep this in perspective.
>
> There is nothing necessarily wrong with 50-year-old wiring. The copper
> is good, and the insulation is usually in pretty good shape, too,
> except maybe one or two runs in the engine compartment that get pretty
> hot. The cloth bundling may be ragged, but that has nothing to do with
> electrical faults.
>
> Itâ??s just corrosion at the junctions, and the physical condition of
> the female connectors, that are the issues here. Letâ??s not intimidate
> the man into thinking he needs to rewire the entire vehicle. Going
> through the connections is something that can be done a little at a
> time. Pull one, clean the male leads, smear on some dielectric grease,
> pop on a new female connector if warranted. They tend to be clustered
> in a few places â?? if you pull them one at a time there is less chance
> of misconnection.
>
> --
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB
>
>> On Jan 16, 2020, at 1:27 PM, dave via Mgs <mgs@autox.team.net
>>
>> IF you are willing to put in the time and effort, you can build your
>> own wiring harness. I did that on a 67. I followed the wiring
>> diagram, used the correct colors, but â?? I put in a 10 fuse fuse box
>> (I think â?? its been a while). Everything has its own fuse sized
>> accordingly. The lights, horns, blinkers, electric fan, etc. took
>> my untold hours to figure it out.
>> Wiring is actually simple - power to fuse to switch to device to
>> ground. Thatâ??s it. Pretty much everything follows that. Do the
>> circuits one at a time and it will be easy, use twist ties to hold
>> everything together, then tie wraps, then cut those off and wrap it.
>> *From:*Mgs <mgs-bounces@autox.team.net
>> *Sent:*Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:06 PM
>> *Subject:*Re: [Mgs] Electrical Nightmare
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I feel oh sort of superior! An unusual feeling in the MG world as I
>> am a novice. When I built my MGB GT V8 I was determined to make it
>> bullet proof even if it meant not being "original". There is a chap,
>> whose name escapes me, who put out an electrical wiring harness
>> design which was "point to point". He was a big time engineer in
>> Triumph so I followed his design and actually bought parts form
>> him.  It had a central "control box" with solenoids, fuses etc
>> etc.  So that's what I have in my GT.  Bags of fuses and there are
>> no branches causing confusion.   It is not original true, but then
>> it is bulletproof.  Probably no more expensive than buying a harness
>> from British Wiring or others if you do it yourself.
>>
>> I have his article, complete with diagrams, from the British V8
>> outfit which was pure MGs but now any Brit V8 !!
>>
>> Barrie.
>>
>> On 1/16/2020 2:41 PM, Hans Duinhoven via Mgs wrote:
>>> Looking to your picture, I think it is better to do a thorough
>>> wiring job.
>>> It looks, like the car has been exposed to â??natureâ?? for many times.
>>> This means, a lot of contacts are suspect of being poor or bad.
>>> So besides true fault finding, Iâ??d dismantle all wiring and get all
>>> contacts cleaned.
>>> Clean all bullet connectors and replace all their interconnects.
>>> Clean all other connectors and replace these when they are bad.
>>> I did this with my BGT in 1996 and after that job I never had any
>>> electrical failures, besides a faulty alternator (diode pack) and
>>> starter solenoid, where the nut did not keep the 12 V wires fixed
>>> anymore.
>>> So get a matching electrical diagram of the carâ??s built year.
>>> The Haynes MGB manual always helped me out.
>>> Hope this helps for the long term.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hans
>>> â??71 BGT
>>> *Van:*Mgs [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net]*Namens*Max Heim via Mgs
>>> *Verzonden:*donderdag 16 januari 2020 20:20
>>> *Aan:*Michael MacLean
>>> *CC:*MGs
>>> *Onderwerp:*Re: [Mgs] Electrical Nightmare
>>> I think you still have a ground problem. Should the steering column
>>> have a separate ground wire on a 69? I know there is one in the turn
>>> signal harness.
>>> It does help to consult the wiring diagram, to figure out where the
>>> common grounds are.
>>> --
>>> Max Heim
>>> '66 MGB
>>>> On Jan 16, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Michael MacLean via Mgs
>>>> In an earlier post I told how my tach in my 69 GT would die when
>>>> the headlights were turned on. Someone mentioned that the tach was
>>>> looking for a ground through the light wiring for the instrument.
>>>> That turned out to be true, somewhat. To test this I pulled the
>>>> instrument to inspect the wiring and found what you see in the
>>>> picture. One arrow points to the ground connection on the back of
>>>> the case and the other arrow points to a common ground just
>>>> floating around behind the instrument. For an experiment I slipped
>>>> the ground wire connector over the threaded mouting stud of the
>>>> case back and shoved the tach back into place temporarily to find
>>>> out about the missing ground theory. It worked! You didn't think
>>>> it was going to be that easy did you? The light had not
>>>> illuminated the instrument before either, so after scraping and
>>>> sanding the bulb hlder and the tube fitting on the back of the tach
>>>> that the bulb shoves into, the light worked too, but wait there's
>>>> more! After this hollow victory I had to use the horn on the test
>>>> drive. Now the horn does not work, but when I push on the steering
>>>> wheel stalk to activate the horn, the brake warning light comes
>>>> on. I just love electrical problems. Not in my element here. Any
>>>> ideas?
>>>> Mike MacLean
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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Max is not wrong.  I had my
Austin Healey in pieces so the wiring harness was out.  My wife
and I used soft toothbrushes to clean the harness (car had been
in a flood and had mud all over the place) then I buffed all the
connector ends.  The car when finished ran like a Swiss sewing
machine and never missed an electrical beat. It won first in the
1989 Conclave for Austin Healeys - the Mecca for A-Hs<br>
<br>
Oh happy days.<br>
Barrie<br>
</font></font><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/16/2020 5:04 PM, Max Heim via Mgs
wrote:<br>
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Thatâ??s admirable, but letâ??s keep this in perspective.
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">There is nothing necessarily wrong with 50-year-old
wiring. The copper is good, and the insulation is usually in
pretty good shape, too, except maybe one or two runs in the
engine compartment that get pretty hot. The cloth bundling may
be ragged, but that has nothing to do with electrical faults.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">Itâ??s just corrosion at the junctions, and the
physical condition of the female connectors, that are the issues
here. Letâ??s not intimidate the man into thinking he needs to
rewire the entire vehicle. Going through the connections is
something that can be done a little at a time. Pull one, clean
the male leads, smear on some dielectric grease, pop on a new
female connector if warranted. They tend to be clustered in a
few places â?? if you pull them one at a time there is less chance
of misconnection.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
<div class="">
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class="">'66
MGB</div>
</div>
</div>
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<br class="">
<div>
<blockquote type="cite" class="">
<div class="">On Jan 16, 2020, at 1:27 PM, dave via Mgs <<a
href="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net"; class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">mgs@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
<div class="">
<div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;
font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;
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0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;" class="">IF you are willing to put in
the time and effort, you can build your own wiring
harness. I did that on a 67. I followed the wiring
diagram, used the correct colors, but â?? I put in a
10 fuse fuse box (I think â?? its been a while).Â
Everything has its own fuse sized accordingly. The
lights, horns, blinkers, electric fan, etc. took my
untold hours to figure it out.<o:p
class=""></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class="">Â </o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;" class="">Wiring is actually simple -Â
power to fuse to switch to device to ground. Thatâ??s
it. Pretty much everything follows that. Do the
circuits one at a time and it will be easy, use
twist ties to hold everything together, then tie
wraps, then cut those off and wrap it.<o:p
class=""></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class="">Â </o:p></span></div>
<div class="">
<div style="border-style: solid none none;
border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225,
225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"
class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"
class="">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;" class=""><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>Mgs <<a
href="mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net";
style="color: blue; text-decoration:
underline;" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">mgs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span><b
class="">On Behalf Of<span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></b>Barrie
Robinson via Mgs<br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>Thursday,
January 16, 2020 2:06 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span><a
href="mailto:mgs@autox.team.net"; style="color:
blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">mgs@autox.team.net</a><br
class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>Re:
[Mgs] Electrical Nightmare<o:p
class=""></o:p></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p
class="">Â </o:p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Hello folks,<br
class="">
<br class="">
I feel oh sort of superior! An unusual feeling in
the MG world as I am a novice. When I built my MGB
GT V8 I was determined to make it bullet proof even
if it meant not being "original". There is a chap,
whose name escapes me, who put out an electrical
wiring harness design which was "point to point". Â
He was a big time engineer in Triumph so I followed
his design and actually bought parts form him.  It
had a central "control box" with solenoids, fuses
etc etc.  So that's what I have in my GT.  Bags of
fuses and there are no branches causing
confusion.   It is not original true, but then it
is bulletproof.  Probably no more expensive than
buying a harness from British Wiring or others if
you do it yourself.<br class="">
<br class="">
I have his article, complete with diagrams, from the
British V8 outfit which was pure MGs but now any
Brit V8 !!<br class="">
<br class="">
Barrie.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"
class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<div class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On
1/16/2020 2:41 PM, Hans Duinhoven via Mgs wrote:<o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
<blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"
class="" type="cite">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Â <o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Looking
to your picture, I think it is better to do a
thorough wiring job.<span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">It
looks, like the car has been exposed to â??natureâ??
for many times.<span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">This
means, a lot of contacts are suspect of being poor
or bad.<span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">So
besides true fault finding, Iâ??d dismantle all
wiring and get all contacts cleaned.</span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Clean
all bullet connectors and replace all their
interconnects.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Clean
all other connectors and replace these when they
are bad.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I
did this with my BGT in 1996 and after that job I
never had any electrical failures, besides a
faulty alternator (diode pack) and starter
solenoid, where the nut did not keep the 12 V
wires fixed anymore.<span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
class="">Â </span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">So
get a matching electrical diagram of the carâ??s
built year.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">The
Haynes MGB manual always helped me out.</span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
class="">Â </span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hope
this helps for the long term.</span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
class="">Â </span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
class="">Cheers,</span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
class="">Hans</span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">â??71
BGT</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
class="">Â </span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div class="">
<div style="border-style: solid none none;
border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181,
196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"
class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"
class="">Van:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma,
sans-serif;" class=""><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>Mgs [<a
href="mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net";
style="color: blue; text-decoration:
underline;" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>]<span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span><b
class="">Namens<span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span></b>Max
Heim via Mgs<br class="">
<b class="">Verzonden:</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>donderdag
16 januari 2020 20:20<br class="">
<b class="">Aan:</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>Michael
MacLean<br class="">
<b class="">CC:</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>MGs<br
class="">
<b class="">Onderwerp:</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space">Â </span>Re:
[Mgs] Electrical Nightmare</span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Â <o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">I
think you still have a ground problem. Should the
steering column have a separate ground wire on a 69?
I know there is one in the turn signal harness.<o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
<div class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"
class="">Â <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"
class="">It does help to consult the wiring
diagram, to figure out where the common grounds
are.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"
class="">Â <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"
class="">Â <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="">
<div class="">
<div class="">
<div class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New
Roman', serif;" class=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">--</span><o:p
class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="">
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;
font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New
Roman', serif;" class=""><span
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post I told how my tach in my 69 GT
would die when the headlights were
turned on. Someone mentioned that the
tach was looking for a ground through
the light wiring for the instrument.Â
That turned out to be true, somewhat.Â
To test this I pulled the instrument to
inspect the wiring and found what you
see in the picture. One arrow points to
the ground connection on the back of the
case and the other arrow points to a
common ground just floating around
behind the instrument. For an
experiment I slipped the ground wire
connector over the threaded mouting stud
of the case back and shoved the tach
back into place temporarily to find out
about the missing ground theory. It
worked! You didn't think it was going
to be that easy did you? The light had
not illuminated the instrument before
either, so after scraping and sanding
the bulb hlder and the tube fitting on
the back of the tach that the bulb
shoves into, the light worked too, but
wait there's more! After this hollow
victory I had to use the horn on the
test drive. Now the horn does not work,
but when I push on the steering wheel
stalk to activate the horn, the brake
warning light comes on. I just love
electrical problems. Not in my element
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