Hi, Bill! I just checked my '73, which has the original harness in it. On
the right side of the trunk, there are two red wires that come out of the
harness in front of the right tail light and go into a double connector.
Coming out of this connector is a red wire to the right tail light, and a
blue/white wire to the side marker light. Below the license plate wiring
grommet, one red wire and a black wire come out of the harness and go to
the license plate light. On the left side, one red wire comes out of the
harness and goes into a double connector. A blue wire comes out of the
connector to the side marker light, and a red wire to the left tail light.
You mention the red wire to the license plate light, but do you have the
red wires to the tail light on the right side?
On the horns: I replaced my horns during the restoration of my car. They
worked when I took them off, but did not when I reinstalled them. The ones
I took off did not have an isolator under the mounting feet, but the feet
had significant corrosion. To eliminate this, when I reinstalled my new
horns, I made and installed cork gaskets. Maybe my new ones would not have
worked if I hadn't used the gaskets. Have you tried them with a gasket?
Are they "British" horns, or aftermarket horns?
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
'66 BJ8 HBJ8L/36666 "TARHEELY"
'63 BJ7 HBJ7L/20111 "HEALEYUM"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt" -- Mark Twain
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> From: Noel, William M <noel@BATTELLE.ORG>
> To: 'spridgets@autox.team.net' <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
> Subject: Wiring
> Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 9:23 AM
>
> I am new and to Spridgets. I am trying to get a '72 Midget into driving
> shape. I am currently replacing the wiring harness. I currently have
two
> seemingly insoluble problems, for me, I would appreciate advice on.
>
> First problem:
>
> The rear wiring harness that goes along the passenger side of the car
into
> the boot appears to lack one connecting wire. There is a red wire that
> connects to the license plate light, however, it appears that there
should
> be another red wire that should be connected through a bullet connector
> extending to the driver's side of the car to connect to the side market
and
> tail light. If I jumper a wire from the license plate light everything
> appears to work. Any help or suggestions?
>
> Second problem:
>
> My car does not have the standard two horns but has a single horn mounted
on
> a bracket attached to the radiator frame on the passenger side of the
car.
> The wiring harness that I installed provides four wires for connecting to
> the horn at that point, two purple and two purple with black tracers.
> According to the wiring diagram, the black tracer wires ground through
the
> horn push, which they do as I checked continuity and one of the purple
wires
> is hot going back to the fuse block, which it is. Well, the problem is
that
> when I place the hot hire on the horn connection the horn blows. The
reason
> is that the horn is grounding through the bracket. Since the wiring
harness
> I replaced was badly damaged through fire, I was thinking that the
original
> horns may have some sort of isolation mounting devices. At some point
the
> horns did not work and someone replaced the two horns with the single
horn
> thinking that the horns were damaged and needed new horns. When the
horns
> were replaced they didn't properly isolate the replacement, but since the
> problem was actually in the wiring the horn still didn't work and so they
> just forgot about the problem and didn't use he horn. My question is
there
> some sort of isolation? Or, what do I need to do?
>
> Any help or suggestions would be deeply appreciated. The weather is
turning
> nice here and I am itching to get this thing on the road.
> Bill Noel
> noel@battelle.org
> phone (614)424-4917
> fax (614)424-3152
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