[Healeys] Late Monday night rant.

[Bob Spidell]

Michael,

I feel your pain. My dad got a new harness for our BN2 (probably from 
Moss). I thought the harness was good quality overall, and everything 
worked except the turn signals. I spent 3 days double-checking 
everything; we went so far as to open the relay box, but everything 
looked good in there. I eventually discovered the wiring to one of the 
rear brake/turn lights was mis-colored. This really pissed me off, as 
I'd wired a bare chassis just from the schematic and it would have been 
100% correct if not for the misidentified wire. I'll probably never sell 
the car, but whoever ends up with it will be confused, as a couple of 
wires are interchanged from the schematic. Come to think of it, I should 
probably label the flaw ... as soon as I finish all the other stuff 
needs fixin'.

Bob

On 1/18/2021 11:38 PM, Michael MacLean wrote:
> 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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