Date: 23 Jan 91 14:44:06
From: Jerry Kaidor <Jerry_Kaidor.ENGINTWO@engtwomac.synoptics.com>
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If the damage is too extensive, the thing to do, is bite the
bullet and buy a new wiring harness. Then all the color codes will
be right, the insulation whole, the connectors new and shiny....
Of course, your new harness won't have any instructions, but I've
found that with the repair-manual schematic in front of me, I can
label all the ends ( masking tape and felt marker ), in about an
evening. This while watching TV! The last time I did this was
with my MGA. The old harness didn't want to creep through the hole
in the firewall, so I just cut it in half there, disconnected
everything, and threw it away, making sure to save all the Lucas Bullet
connectors. None of this "label every wire as you take it off" crap!
- Jerry Kaidor
Yeah, I did the same thing with my MGA. I bought the harness in
England and took it home with me via security at Heathrow. The nice
man wanted to know what all the colored wires were doing sticking out
of my carry-on bag... It took me about 5 hours to do the whole car,
using the wiring diagram in the original shop manual. The only
changes I made were to use molex connectors rather than bullet
connectors on the taillamps (easier to deal with and less corrosion).
Fortunately the MGA has a fairly trivial wiring diagram, and the color
coding is fairly rational.
Happy Motoring,
markl
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Oracle Corporation
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