[TR] Battery in and Q

[John Gillis]

Big day for me today, bought a battery and fed some juice through the  
wires for the first time in 11 years, and now of course I have a  
question; all seems to work fine, lights, wiper, panel, horn etc.. I  
even turned the motor over briefly (no fuel in yet, that's another  
day). I did notice I had no ignition light on the dash and the  
ignition switch getting warm, I traced this to the yellow wire from  
the ignition light back to the control box, which in turn was being  
warmed up by the thicker yellow going back to the dynamo, the back of  
the dynamo itself was a little warm. I polorized the dynamo by  
flashing the yellow/green wire off the neg. on the battery (I am  
using pos. earth) but this made no difference and with the ignition  
turned on the the thicker yellow was still warming up as was the  
thinner yellow to the ignition light.  I fit an earth supply to the  
back of the ignition light even though there does not appear to be  
one on the wiring diagram. The ignition light now comes on.
Less of a worry is the fuel gauge which shows full, switching the  
wires made no difference, the tank is empty
Looking forward to list wisdom
Regards
John
1954 TR2