Much sympathy on the rewiring story. It sounds like the event that caused my
complete rewire about a year ago. Driving down the M1 in the dark and pouring
rain, people started flashing at me. Nothing new I thought until it became
every
car passing me flashing. So I pulled over, got out and discovered that I had no
lights at the back end. As I played around trying to get the lights on, smoke
started coming from various places. The result being that I now had no front
lights
either.
The only thing left working was the hazard lights, so I finished the trip with
just
those flashing merrily. The next day I decided that the time had come to
finally
take off the dash and sort the problem. At this point I was imagining splicing
in
a few bits of wire, tightening the odd loose connector etc.
When I got the dash off I realized the size of the task ahead. The whole dash
loom
had melted its insulation, so I had one big thick brown wire behind the dash,
the
engine bay loom similarly had been melted in places by the current. A complete
new
loom was the only answer.
On removing the old loom I found several "modifications" made by previous
owners.
The best of these included : 14 bare live wire ends behind the dash.
Radio wire in with 6 foot long peices of wire
twisted
together.
LT wire to the coil twisted onto the
connections and
"repaired" by bwing twisted together,
no tape.
The new loom duly arrived, and I labelled every connector by referring to the
wiring
diagram in the book. This took me about 2 afternoons at work. Then I just
went through
the car ripping off the old one and plugging in the new. It took me a couple
of evenings
working very slowly.
All worked fine right away.
Good luck
Andy
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Andy Castellano Smith. | email: a.d.smith@umds.ac.uk
Image Processing Group. | http://www-ipg.umds.ac.uk/~as/
Cunliffe Labs, New Guy's House. | tel. : 0171 955 4208
Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT. | fax. : 0171 955 4913
1977 Chrome Bumper Midget "Mungo" for short.
DPO of 1975 Rubber Bumper Midget "Mary" for short.
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