Honk at pedestrians?
Or not as the case may be, more kill stickers!
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@ohms.com>
To: Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 6:46 AM
Subject: Not enough hours in the day...
>
> Does anyone else feel this way? Today, I spent most of my spare time on
my
> Spitfire, bead blasting and re-painting my horns, getting them to work
> (after some strange false starts) and swapping out my tranny cover with a
> proper Mk3 style so I can have functional back-up lights. Unfortunately,
> the back up lights still don't work -- and now something in the circuit is
> blowing the fuse, which also knocks out the turn signals. This simply
won't
> do. I can't be blowing fuses every time I put into reverse! The fuse in
> there was a 17amp continuous, 35 amp/blow variety. I suppose that I'd
> better make sure that that's correct for the turn signals/backup lights.
>
> I know that the PO replaced the wiring harness at some point during his
> twenty year ownership, but it looks as though the wire loom (in the boot
at
> least) is not correct. According to my service manual, the hot leads to
the
> back up lights should be green/brown, whereas the wires leading into the
> bulb units are white/red. ??
>
> Now I've got a proper green/brown coming off the back-up switch on the
> transmission -- and a proper green wire feeding it power, but after the
> green brown disappears past the electrical tape binding of the harness, I
> can't seem to find where the green/brown leaves off and the white/red
wires
> come into play.
>
> I think if I had unlimited time, I could work on this car 'round the
clock.
> Oh well, two small victories today at least -- fixing a broken front turn
> signal lamp and getting the dual-note, original horns to sound off
properly.
> At least now if my single line brake system fails, I can at least honk at
> pedestrians to warn them I'm coming.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
> '67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
>
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