Robb,
Excellent comments. I am glad to see someone say this & I agree completely.
Take your time, make sure everything is clean & properly assembled &most
everything will work.
Tom Strange, Classic Autosports Ltd., Appleton, Wi., 920-733-5013
Robb Tones wrote:
> Just my 2-bits worth - after seeing all the complaints re electrical
> problems in Spitfires I have these comments. When my son and I got our '71
> GT-6 home, vertually none of the electrics worked. A day in the driveway
> with a hand full of crimps and the voltmeter cured 90% of the problems. The
> remainder were a case of carefully (using fine grit sandpaper) cleaning the
> bullet connectors, lightly crimping the female portion to provide a tighter
> connection or cleaning up very dirty gound connections.
> None of this takes anything but careful workmanship ie you don't have to be
> an electrical engineer to cure the problems.
> In my 30 odd years of being in the mobile radio business I have seen all
> manner of horror stories in the form of botched electrical systems. Most of
> these were the result of the owner or sometimes a well meaning mechanic, who
> had done major surgery in order to overcome a minor bad connection in the
> system.
> I suggest that all of you who are having electrical system problems to back
> off, take a good look at the overall system visually and then start at the
> battery post connections and clean and reconnect every connection you can
> find. I realize that to find all of them you need to tear into the interior
> of the car but slow and easy will get you through it. Once you have the
> bullet connector polished (male and female ends) cover them with a light
> coating of silicon grease (or lacking that plain vasiline works) before
> reconnecting them.
> If you do these few minor tasks even a bit at a time I think that you will
> find that Bro. Lucas was not so bad after all - even if he can't make a
> computor leak oil like someone suggested a while back.
> Just the observations from an old timer
> John Tones (with son Robb)
> 69 MK 3 / 71 GT-6 / 78 1500
|