If I want to get the ’76 car back on the road before its scheduled date I really need to spend some more time on it. And where better to continue the work where I left off. The wiring that is.
Having a few spare hours over the weekend I decided to start with another piece of the car’s wiring. The engine harness. In this case again a non-original item from a late Solihull car (part number RKC5511). And as almost standard with this harness, it looked quite sorry at first glance. Quite logical bearing in mind were it is fitted around the engine!
As with the rest of the wiring I started with capturing the original state of the harness. The emphasis obviously on the various connectors and the order of their connecting wires. To start with the two main connector plugs that connect the engine harness into the main harness;
The gear box harness connector:
The alternator connector:
The starter motor connectors:
And finally the various single connectors:
Clock wise from top left;
Connector distributor feed (WS);
Connector oil pressure switch (WN);
Battery to alternator (N);
Connector coolant temperature sensor (GU);
Next stage was removing the (in some places badly damaged) wrapping tape. A first superficial inspection of the wires revealed no real hidden horrors.
Though this bit of wrapping tape made me wonder what was hiding underneath, as I couldn’t remember any spliced wires or connections in this area of this harness.
Removing the tape revealed absolutely nothing! At least my memory isn’t as bad as I thought, but still not a clue why this amount of tape was where it was. Maybe they forgot to put the bulkhead grommet on before fitting the connectors?
And to end this post a picture to illustrate why it's always a good idea to pay some extra attention to the various wiring harnesses!
Hopefully to be continued soon …
2 comments:
As usual Beans, your attention to detail is a lesson to us all.
thank you!
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