Jack, it sounds as though everything is in order with the harness. The
long white wiore should be looped through a plastic block on the back of the
tach, held there by a metal "U" shaped piece and a knurled nut. The end of
the whitye wire then fastens to the ignition switch.
Cheers.......Bob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "P.J.Aeckerlin" <j.aeckerlin@tiscali.nl>
To: "Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: Wiring problem
> Friends,
> I'm putting a new wiring harness in my BJ8 and am therefore meeting with
> the usual problems but I've now come across one I can't solve myself.
> Basically I'm using the colored diagram that one of the listers made a few
> years ago and that works fine but I found the following problem on my
> tach.
> The harness has one white wire under the dashboard which runs all the way
> to the coil and a second white wire which together with a brown/yellow one
> goes to a lamp. According to the diagram there should be one more white
> wire running from the tach to the ignition switch but I can't find that
> one at all. On the ignition switch I have one male spade connector on
> which two white wires are connected which disappear in the harness and
> also there I can't find a third white wire (which should be there
> according to the diagram).
> Two questions: a) am I missing a white wire between the ignition switch
> and the tach and b) if that is so, where do I attach that wire on the
> tach? The one and only spade connector at the rear of the tach is taken by
> the green wire which starts at the fuse box.
> I vaguely remember discussions on this forum about a loop in a wire
> through a plastic bloc but as at that time my main concern were the holes
> in the frame and the body I must admit I haven't paid much attention then.
> Sorry...
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