Paul - As George said, 16 hours is a fair estimate. However, it is
something you can do with a little patience. The harnesses you can buy
from various suppliers are wrapped and made to the correct length. It
is a simple process (simple but tedious) of disconnecting old section
and hooking up the new one. When I did mine, I took out the seats and
carpeting, cut each section the old harness somewhere in the cockpit,
made notes of how and where the wires were connected at the end; pulled
out the old and fed the new through to whereever it came from and
reconnected. There was only one place I had some problems and that was
because there was an extra wire in the group that went to front right
horn/lights which I found out was there so that the harness could
accommodate both left and right hand drive.
Put the $1000 into something else on the car that you can't do. Be
patient and it will work itself out..
Good luck.
Later,
Carl F. Musson (musson@arts.usf.edu)
'58 TR3A TS25264L www.arts.usf.edu/~musson/triumph/
Tampa, Florida (USA)
-----Original Message-----
From: Paulpop@ssnet.com [SMTP:Paulpop@ssnet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 1997 12:47 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: TR3 wirinbg harness
I have had a partial wiring harness meltdown due to a short in
one part of
the system ... the high beam switch, installed by a mechanic I
thought knew
what he was doing. I own a '57 TR3 .. it's gorgeous by the way.
It now
appears that the entire harness may have to be replaced since
the meltdown
seems to have spread to the right side of the harness near the
headlight
all the way back to the switch.
My question is this ... not being extremely mechanical, but
being fairly
obsessive when need be, I was wondering just how difficult
putting in a new
harness would be if I had the harness, wiring diagram, time and
a bit of
patience? A local mechanic wants to charge me 16 hours times
$60/hr for
this job. What do you all think?
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Paul Poplawski, Ph.D.
email = ppoplawski@state.de.us or paulpop@ssnet.com
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