[Healeys] Questions of the day

[Michael Salter]

FWIW after installing all the electics I fit a 12 VDC buzzer between the
battery terminal and ground cable before testing anything.
With everything turner off the buzzer should not sound.
This test confirms that there is no risk of an immediate short circuit.
Next I jumper the flasher unit (to protect it from shorts to ground in the
turn signal system) and replace the buzzer with 50 breaker (actually from
the heated rear window of a Chevrolet Vega, I've had it a while) before
testing each except the starter.
Such a breaker will trip before any of the precious smoke leaks out.
Only after all systems work correctly with these protections do I hook up
the ground cable and remove the flasher unit jumper then flash the
generator before starting the engine.
A burned wiring harness in a new restoration is not fun!!

M


On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 1:07 AM Bruce Steele <healeybruce at roadrunner.com wrote:

> Bob, I agree it is extra work, but I wanted to be extra careful and
> thorough, especially the first time I had pulled everything out of dash
> when I did the interior and had the dash panel out.  My wiring wasn’t
> totally stock.  Now, I would feel comfortable doing the job with just the
> wiring diagram.  Indeed, I went sans tape when I installed my second wiring
> harness.  Yes, second.  Don’t ask.  I also installed a fuse block and made
> an auxiliary wiring diagram.
>
>
>
> Bruce Steele
>
> Brea, CA
>
> 1960 BN7
>
>
>
> *From:* Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of *Bob
> Spidell
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 08, 2018 12:10 PM
> *To:* healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Questions of the day
>
>
>
> On the contrarian side, seems like extra work to me.  I wired a bare BN2
> chassis just using the schematic in the shop manual and going by the color
> codes.  Got it 100% correct, but one of the wires in the harness had the
> wrong colors and the rear turn signals didn't work right, so keep an eye
> out for that kind of goof.  Took a while to debug that one (even opened up
> the relay box).
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> On 11/8/2018 10:31 AM, Bruce Steele wrote:
>
> I second blue painters tape.
>
>
>
> Bruce Steele
>
> Brea, CA
>
> 1960 BN7
>
>
>
> *From:* Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
> <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>] *On Behalf Of *Team.net
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 08, 2018 3:50 AM
> *To:* Kees Oudesluijs <coudesluijs at chello.nl> <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
> *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Questions of the day
>
>
>
> Use blue painters tape
>
> Easily removed
>
> It won’t tear up the loom
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2018, at 3:46 AM, Kees Oudesluijs <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
>
> I always use masking tape, cheap and easily written on with ballpoint,
> pencil or marker.
>
> Kees Oudesluijs
>
> Op 7-11-2018 om 22:23 schreef Michael MacLean:
>
> I have a good vacuum unit for a distributor with the markings 421943 and
> 7-18-12.  can anyone tell me the application of this unit?  Second
> question.  What is best to use to label the wire ends of my wiring harness
> for installation?
>
> Mike MacLean
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