[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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