Hi all,
Long time digest lurker, yearning for the day that I have my '76 B back on the
road. And now the engine is in and rather nice. However, the comedy of errors
that was loading and transporting my B back home (it's not drivable yet and now
sans front bumper) revealed a rather disconcerting problem: My gorgeous, NEW
wiring harness is fried. Well, ok not so much fried (the engine runs, I dare
not test anything else at the moment) but one wire was really hot at some
point. Hot enough to not only melt its own insulation, but also split/melt the
blue over wrap in several places.
The wire in question is Pink/White. The only reference to a KW wire I have
found is on Skye Poier's site: "Ballast terminal to ignition distributor"
(guess I should donate now). My wire in question doesn't directly go
from "Ballast terminal to ignition distributor" but does in a round about
way... Looking over the wiring diagram in the Haynes manual I find a fairly
good representation of this wire and it's connections and it happens to
correspond to a component labeled "62 Resistive Cable". As such it makes no
reference to color on the wiring diagram.
I am hoping that those of you with far more experience than I can confirm that
I am at the right place. Mine is connected to a WLG wire on one end and three
W wires on the other. Note that Haynes shows the WLG on one end and two W and
a WN on the other while the wiring diagram in the BL _... Workshop Manual..._
shows three W wires. So, do I have the correct wire/component and does is have
any special properties or can I replace it with any multi-stranded wire of the
same gauge routed with the same length and hopefully color combination?
Thanks!
Wil
'76B with heart, uh, wire burn
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