Message text written by "Bill DeWar"
> TS 47481-L , no rheostat, original harness and guages,
>dash lights wired this way. Red wire to feed side of panel
>switch. This is the top one on center guage cluster. Out-
>put side of switch has two wires, one red only going to
>speedo and tach in series, and one red with white tracer
>to all center panel guages in series. Just another possible
>combination that seems to be original for this car.
And Randall Young writes:
>All of my cars have had the switch, which would extinguish all 6 dash
>light bulbs (two for the gauge cluster, plus 2 each for the speedo and
>tach). This agrees with all the early wiring diagrams. The only
>difference I see is the color of the wire to the speedo/tach lights. I
>was not able to check the color of the wire to the gauge cluster lights.
Well, splitting hairs ; the manual tags the wire to the smaller
gauge lights as red/white but there is no designator for the
wire to the speedo and tach lights. Since they are on the
same circuit one would assume that they would be the
same color. But we all know the meaning of ass/u/me. ;-)
It is possible that the speedo/tach lighting harness was borrowed
from an earlier model car that lacked the dash light switch and
rather than tool up to make one specifically for the TR2 (after all
no one was sure how well it would sell) they used off the shelf
assemblies where ever possible.
Just a guess.
Dave
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