[TR] TR3 wiring

[DAVE HOGYE]

Excellent suggestion. 

Before you decide on the overall wiring job, hot wire it and see if it will run.  

I did this on my recent find, which may have not been run in at least 20 years.

I oiled the cylinders, adjusted the valves (which were way off), cranked it around and got oil pressure (the oil level was full and looked fresh), sanded the points and got spark, removed and clean the carbs (replacing the float bowls and floats), set the jet heights with calipers, hung a remote fuel supply and installed good used spark plugs.  It then started, almost immediately and sounded very good. 

I ran a wire directly from the battery to the coil with a switch in-line and jumped the starter solenoid with a screw driver.

Now, I'll completely tear the car down for restoration. 

It too will need a new wire harness.  I'm interested in the Advanced Autowire recommendation.  I wired my street/race TR3 with a modern aftermarket harness by Painless.  It's an 18 circuit universal harness and it has been working perfectly.  I run full road equipment, minus wipers.  

Of course there is nothing wrong with going factory stock and Lucus components, I just decided otherwise.  I'm running extra/AutoMeter gauges, temperature senders, electric fan, mini alternator and starter, interior and trunk lighting and other items that that Painless harness can fully accommodate out-of-the-box.

You can view my YouTube (Dave Hogye) restoration video to see some of the details.  The wiring shots are pretty crazy.  

Dave H.



> On December 26, 2018 at 9:13 AM David P <frogeye at porterscustom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Well, given the overall condition, I'd make sure it runs before I went any further. One or two wires is all you need for that, then given it runs, pull the motor and take care of the much needed cosmetics ahead of the harness.
> 
>     DaveP
> 
>     On 12/26/2018 8:27 AM, Dave Connitt wrote:
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>         > > 
> >         Hi Dave,
> > 
> >         I installed a Advanced Autowire harness in my TR4A and am extremely happy with the result. I placed the “power block” in the passenger footwell so it’s not apparent that I have a non-stock harness. It has provisions for emergency flasher, a master relay so the only power going thru the ignition switch is to the coil of a master relay, electric fan relay and much larger gauge wires that have use the same color code as the stock Triumph.
> > 
> >         My .02,
> > 
> >         Dave Connitt
> > 
> >         DavesTR4A.com
> > 
> >          
> > 
> >          
> > 
> >         From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net> mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net On Behalf Of dave
> >         Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2018 10:28 PM
> >         To: triumphs at autox.team.net mailto:triumphs at autox.team.net
> >         Subject: [TR] TR3 wiring
> > 
> >          
> > 
> >         Just picked up a car and the engine wiring is a mess due to an engine compartment fire some years ago.
> > 
> >          
> > 
> >         Is there just an engine harness available?  I see moss has “full set” and “auxiliary” which appears to have the lights etc.  I’m not sure what all that means.  Does anyone know or do I need to call Moss?
> > 
> >          
> > 
> >         Or should I just build my own and link it to the existing wires?  That’s no big deal; I have built wiring harnesses for other cars and british wiring can supply me with the correct wires.
> > 
> > 
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