[Healeys] Late Monday night rant.

[Michael MacLean]

Was in the engine bay doing some preliminary wiring of components tonight.  Specifically, the fuse block and the voltage regulator.  Looking at a wiring diagram, the way you see in the two pictures is mostly correct, but look at what the arrows are pointing at.  At the point in the harness where the wires come out of the loom for the fuse block, you can see on the right hand side the arrow is pointing to a brown wire with a green stripe.  Good so far.  Now look what the arrow is pointing at on the other side of the fuse block.  It's a large solid brown wire.  Now in the wiring diagram this brown wire is supposed to be a continuation of the brown with a green stripe wire.  That brown wire with the green strip that was supposed to be there goes to the "A" connection of the voltage regulator.  Now look at the picture of the voltage regulator and notice what the orange arrow is pointing at. It is the other end of the plain, large brown wire!  The electrical connections are correct.  The color coding of the harness is not.  I have just started wiring.  What else might I find in the rest of the harness?  This harness was a gift from my late friend Tom Rocke.  It was one of many free parts he supplied for this rebuild.  Don't know if I should complain about a free harness.Mike MacLean
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