Hi, Jonathan -
I have made several modifications to my car since installing a new wiring
harness from British Wiring. To avoid cutting into the new harness,
whenever I wanted to add something I made up a wiring extension using wires
of the same color. I have a whole box full of British auto wiring taken
from various junkyard cars or my old harness, and I can usually find the
color I need in there.
It works like this:
Disconnect the wire you want to "splice" into. Make up another length of
wire with connectors on each end to mate with the two connectors of the
wires you just disconnected. Add whatever components you want (e.g., an
in-line fuse) into the length of "added wire". This way, if you want to
remove the modification and return the harness to original, you just
disconnect the added wiring and reconnect the originals.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Jonathan and Carole
Quandt
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 8:43 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re. fuses
About a year ago I smoked the wire for the running lights on my
100-4.This I learned later is a common problem in healeys due to the
cheezy design of our beloved acorn light bodies. It's quite easy to get
a short inside the rubber boots as the ends of the wires are so close
at this point , Same with the brake lights.I have never blown a fuse so
the notion that the fuses are of too great a capacity has some merit .I
installed an inline fuse on these circuits when I added replacements.
Note also that when you smoke these wires in your harness you also melt
the surrounding pvc insulation. A couple of months ago I got a short in
my headlight circuit which burned out the voltage regulator. When I
turned the car off the generator light stayed on and I had to
disconnect the battery to stop the short. The cause for this was simply
old frayed wiring. Make sure you have a battery cut off switch or fire
during periods of storage can be a real possibility . Last week I
ordered a new braided harness from British Wiring so any advise about
Where to add inline fuses without butchering my new $400 harness would
be most helpful. Time to quit smoking, JQ
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