[Healeys] Late Monday night rant.
Bob Spidell
bspidell at comcast.net
Tue Jan 19 10:51:46 MST 2021
Nope. All wires were otherwise accounted-for; two were 'cross-colored.'
The harness was brand new; I don't know of any that supply extra wiring
for separate turn signals, but I haven't looked (would be a good idea,
though).
bs
On 1/19/2021 9:05 AM, john harper wrote:
> Bob
> Could it be a wrong wire or an additional one?
>
> I and many others in the UK feel that with just two red lights coming
> on is very confusing particularly as one enters a corner and brakes.
> This confusing array is therefore dangerous. In the UK amber
> turn lights have been mandatory for many years. Younger drivers
> would not understand anything but amber.
>
> The mod we make for the back of the car is to add amber lights
> connected on the existing wires but connect both red stoplights to
> this additional wire. At the relay box, all is needed is one wire
> being redirected to the new wire.
>
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 16:10, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net
> <mailto:bspidell at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
> 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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