I ran a separate fused line back to the switch. Disconected and taped off
the original line.
Subsequently added another cheap, bright light on the left wall from the
same switch.
Tom
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From: <acekraut11@aol.com>
To: <zoboherald@aol.com>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Not good with electrical
> I have a 71 so I dont have to worry about this situation, but the biggest
> problem I see about having the light only come on when the switch is on
> for lights is getting into the trunk at night AFTER you have turned off
> the car.? I am not in the habit of coming home from the grocery store
> after dark, leave the engine running, unload the groceries then return to
> shut off the car?? Or it would be pretty hard to turn off the headlight
> switch after you had removed everything from the trunk and your hands were
> full of whatever was in the trunk.? So, what do those people who have 74
> and on up cars do in that type of a situation?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Sent: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 9:49 am
> Subject: Re: [TR] Not good with electrical
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Danielson <75TR6@tr6.danielsonfamily.org>
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> ...So for 1973 and earlier, the light came on when the trunk was opened.
> From
> 1974 -
> 76, you had to have the headlight switch on for the light to work. It
> makes
> no sense to me but that's how it was done.
>
> ==AM==
> I suppose one might make the argument that is seems somewhat pointless to
> have a
> trunk light in daylight,
> i.e., when you wouldn't need lights anywhere. But given the BLMC corporate
> bean-counter policies of the
> time, perhaps some accountant determined that several pence per vehicle
> might be
> saved by NOT running that extra
> dedicated purple wire all the way back to the boot? ;-)
>
> --Andy Mace
>
> *Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet?
> *Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er, Triumph
> Herald
> engine with wings.
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