John :
If your harness is correctly made, the bullet connectors are staggered
so they are "head to toe" instead of "side by side". In that
configuration, they can be pulled through the stator tube. The last
time I did it, I used a length of fairly light solid steel wire
(sometimes called baling wire), which was looped around the harness
behind the last bullet connector and before the cloth outer jacket. I
then wrapped a layer of plastic electrical tape starting on the cloth
jacket and covering the wires and bullet connectors. From there, it was
reasonably easy to feed the baling wire through the stator tube, and
then use the wire to pull the harness through. It almost needs two
people, one to guide (and encourage) the harness into the stator tube,
the other to pull on the baling wire, but I accomplished it without
help.
There is no wire attached to the brass ring, it is grounded through the
stator tube and/or steering column. Only the 4 wires of the harness run
through the stator tube.
Randall
59 TR3A daily driver
John Gillis wrote:
>
> Those following the thread will know I was rebuilding the control head for
> my TR2 project. As part of all this activity I purchased a new loom for the
> head from Realey Healey. It is of very nice quality and bound in the
> original type material. Two questions though, I presume I will have to snip
> off the bullet connectors in order to feed the loom through the stator tube
> ?. Secondly, should there be an earth wire connecting to the brass ring on
> the control head, and if so where does it earth to. It is not part of the
> new loom as it has only four wires, should it have the earth wire as well?.
> I noticed an earth is shown in the workshop manual at the control head end,
> but surely any wire woud have to travel down the stator tube as there is no
> where else for it to exit the control head.
> Looking forward as always to the collective response
>
> John Gillis
> 1954 TR2 TS3618. October 1954 (ground up)
> 1964 Triumph 3TA 350cc (a little gem)
> Trinity College
> Dublin,
> IRELAND.
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