[Mgs] FW: dashboard install

[Richard Lindsay]

   Great fun and encouraging to read this, Dave. There must be some primal
satisfaction involved. There certainly is for me, even if poorly
understood. My TD got new harnesses. See attached.

   I am now finishing a TR6 and keeping the original harness, but have
replaced most connectors and verified / improved grounds.
   Next up? My 1971 Volvo 1800E project is getting 'new' self-made dash
wiring and engine room harness. Woohoo.

Rick

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 12:09 PM dave via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:

> 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 *On Behalf Of *Richard Lindsay
>
>    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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