At 09:39 PM 5/16/99 EDT, you wrote:
>The 4/4 looks really clean under the hood and dash - mainly because there
are
>no wires in it.....
Lannis, I did rewire my 65 4/4 - see my article on my Morgan Web page
(listed below)
> The scabbed-on wires for additional gauge lighting have been removed. The
>melted wire (LH headlight lo-beam) was traced back to a short under the dash
>(I can't believe that those things are not fused). Someone had cobbled a
>(too-small) lighting wire onto the outside of the harness to replace it and
>hadn't fused it either. A rolling firetrap to say the least.
The headlight switches are quite expensive. I'd suggest that you run
a relay for the headlights, then use the headlight switch to control the
low current to the solenoid of the relay.
>I don't mind paying money for things I can't do or don't have time to do. I
>can't build gauges, so I'm happy to pay $50 or $100 to buy one. I can't
>make a radial tire, so $60 for one seems like a bargain to me. I can't cast
>a water-pump housing, so $75 looks like the deal of the century compared to
>what it would take me to do it.
British Wiring has a +4 harness with a 4/4 adapter kit for about $350 which
has the cloth loom. If you don't care about originality, cut off your
old cloth loom, replace ONLY the wires you have to, and then use the
plastic loom. This is what I did initially until I started try to get
a National AACA trophy.
>So there's bound to be a catch. Can I buy the same insulated female blade
>connectors that are on these cars (not the NAPA crimpies)?
I purchase the spades in bulk and cut the plastic insulators off.
>Can I buy the Lucas color-code wire so I won't have to label them
separately?
You should be able to. Enclosed at the bottom of this post, is a list of
the various electrical suppliers I have found looking for connectors,
fuse blocks, etc for my various cars.
>Can I buy a four-fuse box (like on my MGB) and run the lighting circuit
>through it too?
Why not? Or you can purchase several of the fuse holders like are already
on the Morgan for about $10. Again, I'd fuse the headlights and also
put in a relay.
Automotive Electrical Wiring & Connectors
www.sema.org/
www.painlesswiring.com - have their cat. no connectors
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I'm going to guess that the connectors used were from Packard
Industries. Packard connectors were common to GM until Delphi Industries
(AC/Delco) came up with their own invention. Packard connectors are
still quite available. As to a Bricklin wiring harness, who knows.
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wiring harness & electrical suppliers
Antique Auto Electric (repro wiring)
Rosemead, CA
818- 572-0938
Autoelectrics (small fim catering to the rare)
Pasadena, CA
818-575-4071
British Wiring Edwin & Lesley Cehelnik
20449 Ithaca Very competative prices
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
(708) 481-9050
Harnesses Unlimited (except Ford& Merc)
Wayne, PA
(215) 688-3998
M. Parker Autoworks, Inc.
150 Cooper Road
Unit C-7, Dept. HVAA
West Berlin, NJ 08091, USA
Voice: 609.753.0350
Fax: 609.753.035
Merv Plastics auto wiring supplies 10/92
201 Station Rd
Beeston Notts, NG9 2AB
(0602) 222783
Narragansett Reproductions
P.O. Box 51
107 Woodville Road
Wood River Jct., RI 02894
Phone: (401) 364-3839
Fax: (401) 364-3830
NAPA Supposedly have a good selection of
connectors
Painless Wiring Full "generic" & Fuel injection
harnesses
www.painlesswiring.com No supplies sold seperaterly
Pease Cable & Harness (braided & plastic - inc fire
Wood River Junction, RI trucks, ambulances, etc)
401-364-3839
Rhode Island Wiring Service Inc. expensive!!!
P.O. Box 434
West Kingston, Rhode Island 02892
(401) 789-1955
(401) 783-0091 (Fax)
Vehicle Wiring Products
9 Buxton Court
Manners Industrial Estate
Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 8EF
phone: 0115 9305454
FAX: 0115 9440101
Y&Z's Yesterdays Parts
1615 West Fern Talk to Gene Zdunowski
Redlands, CA 92373
(909) 798-1498
I hope this helps!! Let us know if you find a source for the Lucas
color coded wire.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
48 TR1800 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V (B1109)
71 Saab Sonett III (71500840) 75 Bricklin SV1 (0887) 77 Spitfire
Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan
Bricklin: webus80.wang.com/BI (new adderss)
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