[Healeys] Yet Another Wiring Question

[Michael MacLean]

 Yes, it was Mark I talked to.  He is very knowledgeable.  I will be calling again Monday to order the wires and connector.  Mark said to tell Michael I talked to him as Michael is his up and coming protege.  I have an order coming from them already for some other sub harnesses like the one for the wiper motor.  Good to know we have not lost all our experienced knowledge about these cars yet.Mike MacLean

    On Friday, February 26, 2021, 6:39:37 PM PST, <gradea1 at charter.net> wrote:  
 
 Michael-you talked to the right person, Mark Hoover.  He is very knowledgeable and exacting.  His description of the wire you needed is right on. He has created a huge file of correct harness information for every Healey and many other cars as well.
Even though RI Wiring is a bit pricy for these items..."you get what you pay for". Also the saying-"you can't buy that kind of information" does not apply with RIW...I found them to be the best and when Mark retires, he will leave a legacy of good data, that hopefully someone else in the firm will pick up, and run with the ball. Hank


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From: "Michael MacLean via Healeys" 
To: "Healeys"
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Sent: Friday February 26 2021 6:09:40PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Yet Another Wiring Question

No one knows the answer to myquestion I guess, but that's OK.  I called Rhode Island Wiringtoday and talked to a 41 year employee that only works 3 days aweek now at 70 years old.  He looked it up for me and saideven their expensive BN2 main harness did not include a connectionfrom the overdrive relay to the transmission switch. According to his records of past original wiring harnesses from BN2cars they use as example, it is a single braided wire with a wovencovering of white with purple tracers encased in a vinylsheath.  On one end is a forked terminal to connect to therelay.  I was told this wire is 48 inches long.  Then alength of brown with purple wire is between the switch and thesolenoid with a sleeve connector in the middle.  Supposedly toservice the solenoid.  So, problem solved.  Just have toorder the wire and components now.Mike MacLean 

On Friday, February 26, 2021, 10:18:56 AM PST, Michael MacLeanvia Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

In the middle of my BN2 re-wire and I have comeacross a bit of a kink.  If you check the Moss catalog theylist an overdrive harness for the BN1 and the BN4 throughBJ8.  No listing for the BN2.  The wiring harness I aminstalling is a Moss cloth/PVC harness.  There connection I amconcerned about today is the connection from the overdrive relayconnection C2 to the transmission switch.  The original wiringdiagram for the BN2 in the service manual shows a single white wirewith green stripe from C2 on the relay to the transmissionswitch.  The harness I have has the connection from C2 to thethrottle switch (same color wire) within the main harness. Really this connection is only inches apart, but there is no whitewire with a green stripe other than that coming out of the harnessat this point.  This leads me to believe this is just a singlewire that runs from the overdrive relay to the transmissionswitch.  Has anyone that has wired a BN2 run into this? I would like to know what gauge wire to use  because I do notknow the amperage this wire has to carry.  How long of a wirewould this be approximately?  I would like to order it fromBritish Wiring with a woven sheath (black with white dots) to makeit look somewhat period.  No having the transmission installedyet makes figuring the length a little difficult. I'd rather be toolong with this wire than the alternative.Mike MacLean
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