[Mgs] FW: dashboard install

[dave]

In fact I very much enjoy wiring.  I have built entire wiring harnesses from scratch, carefully following the color scheme.  I will admit on one car I changed it from a 4 fuse system to a 10 fuse system.  Everything had its own fuse and everything was grounded directly.  Never an electrical problem on that car!

 

I am now restoring 2 mga’s, albeit one at a time.  I will be emulating the factory harness in every way possible, building it from scratch.  That takes a lot of research and questions, and Barney has been extremely helpful.  Get the right color through the right holes, use the connectors in the right places, all a challenge.  Fortunately the one is my reference as I do the other.

 

And, btw, I didn’t start out to restore 2.  Someone offered me a deal I couldn’t refuse on the second one, which needed a new throw out bearing.  But the paint was wrong and so awful we were going to clean it up.  and then . . . .    shipwright’s disease totally got me.  The wiring was so bad (the DPO pretty much just used red and blue wires) that I cut it out and threw it out.

 

Today I hope to make some big progress on the chassis (it is half restored, as in the back half), and I’ve got parts hanging in the side yard that I painted this morning.

 

From: Mgs <mgs-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Richard Lindsay via Mgs
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 7:43 AM
To: mgs at autox.team.net List <mgs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] dashboard install

 

   Perhaps I'm the only guy who enjoys wiring and electrical systems! I just find it rewarding to get everything connected correctly and the harness bits aligned. Go figure!

   My TD is simplicity itself but the other LBC project takes some thinking. It's a US specification 1975 TR6. And as we all know, the '70s was a time of turmoil for our LBCs; None the least of which was the electrics! Part of my goal with this car is to create a CORRECT wiring diagram with CORRECT color codes! Nothing I have found published matches my car, including the schematics labeled 'U.S.A. Only'.

   Still, for a guy like me who builds and restores cars rather than driving them, this is a perfect challenge (storm?)! There are other projects in the queue too, but they are even further OT than Triumph talk...so I will leave Volvo, Lancia, and Jaguar words for others.

 

Rick, in Houston

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