John and List:
First of all thanks to John for a great article on auxiliary lighting
installation a few months back in either the Healey Magazine or Healey
Marque, I don't recall which.
I have shown my ignorance of wiring issues in the past and I am sure I
will do it again before I finish this restoration! I am installing
wiring in my 60 BT7 for my auxiliary lights that will be added later.
They will both be spot lights - no fog lights. At this point I do have
the luxury of having the shroud off and easy access to behind fascia
areas (unlike John when he provided his helpful instruction.)
My questions are these:
1. On the BJ8 the blue wire with the white stripe is the high beam. Is
it the same on the BT7? Looking at the wiring diagram in the Handbook
for the BT7 it appears that the high beams are the blue with red
stripe. I can't easily test at this point because my lighting isn't
installed. If I am going to splice into the high beam wire for the
additional lights I want to get the right one!
2. John spliced a wire from his installed relay to the blue/white wire
at the dip switch terminal. As an alternative...
The dip switch wiring harness connects to the main harness just as the
main harness exits the firewall into the engine compartment. Couldn't I
take my new wire from the relay through the firewall large rubber
grommet and connect to either the blue/white wire or the blue/red wire
using a double bullet connector, rather than having an additional wire
running under the dash to the floor dip switch?
Thanks for any help.
Lin Rose
1960 BT7 in restoration
1959 Bugeye
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