Thanks Randall. I spent some more time on the car yesterday afternoon, and
found I do have a horn relay, and it appears original. The Bently manual
says mine shouldn't have it since my car is a 71 and my commission number is
CC62903L. The relay appears original since the horn wiring matches the
wiring shown in the 72 model schematic, proper wire color and all. I did
get the horn relay to activate, but not the horns. I currently only have
one wire to each horn. I guess I need to run a second wire from each horn
to ground. I'll try that tonight. This takes care of all the loose wires
in the engine compartment. My new dash should be in this week, so this
weekend is replacing the dash. This will be a real adventure since there
are a lot of wires just hanging behind the dash. I bought the car with more
in the back of the truck than on the tow dolly, and the dash is a mess. All
the gauges seem to work, but none of the dash lights. I'm sure I'll have
lots more questions once I get into this job.
Thanks,
Ken Waringa
71 TR6 (almost done)
74 Midget (Rebuilt gearbox installed and running great)
74 MGB (Next project)
-----Original Message-----
From: Randall [mailto:randallyoung@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 10:24 AM
To: Ken Waringa
Subject: Re: Wiring Harness Ground
Ken :
I'm pretty sure there are two leads to each horn on a 71. One lead goes
to the fuse block, and is hot all the time, the other lead goes to the
horn pushbutton in the steering column. It sounds as though you may be
looking at a schematic for a 72 or later, which had a relay controlled
by the pushbutton, and the second lead on the horn was simply grounded
near the horn.
Randall
Ken Waringa wrote:
>
> I'm coming along real good on my TR6. I got the horns in last night and I
> see a connector between the horn leads that doesn't go anywhere. I looked
> at the schematic and see it's supposed to be a harness ground. I can't
find
> anywhere to connect it. It has a spade connector on it that's supposed to
> slide over a tab. Looking at the lip in front of the radiator, it appears
> as though the tab has been broke off. I plan on drilling a hole and
bolting
> the leads to the lip to get my ground. Is this correct?
>
> Also, how many separate wires are supposed to go to each horn, 1 or 2? I
> only have 1 lead to each horn, but looking at the schematic it seems there
> should be 2.
>
> TIA
>
> Ken Waringa
> 71 TR6
> 74 Midget
> 74 MGB
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