[Healeys] Electric Issue

[gradea1 at charter.net]

Price-just a quick guess. BJ8s with a wood dashes need good grounds
from each instrument. Check to make sure there is a black wire on the
Tach and Speedo mounting lug, and that they read ohms to ground. (less
than 5 ohms on wire). There is also a small u-shaped connector on the
tach that must be properly installed to function correctly.
Additionally, unlike an ammeter, your volt meter also needs to be
grounded. It reads battery pos to neg where the ammeter is a series
connection to the regulator. Hank

	-----------------------------------------From: "R. Lindsay via
Healeys" 
To: "Kees Oudesluijs", "Healey List"
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday June 13 2021 1:03:55PM
Subject: [Healeys] Electric Issue

  I have been working on electrical issues on my BJ8. Today’s
issue seems to be the panel lights. I am reinstalling a volt meter. It
is installed and doesn’t work. I have switched the lines - no
change. 
 Before I reinstalled the volt meter as well as after, when I turn on
the main lights and panel lights, the tach stops working. When the
lights are off, the tach runs fine when the panel lights are on. I
have tried changing the connections to the back of the speedo (because
the speedo connections were undone), but no change. I did not touch
the tach. The dip switch blue light works fine but its been daylight
when I’ve been working on the car, so difficult to test the other
lights. 
 Any thoughts/suggestions to fix this?

 Price Lindsay 
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