Big day for me today, bought a battery and fed some juice through the
wires for the first time in 11 years, and now of course I have a
question; all seems to work fine, lights, wiper, panel, horn etc.. I
even turned the motor over briefly (no fuel in yet, that's another
day). I did notice I had no ignition light on the dash and the
ignition switch getting warm, I traced this to the yellow wire from
the ignition light back to the control box, which in turn was being
warmed up by the thicker yellow going back to the dynamo, the back of
the dynamo itself was a little warm. I polorized the dynamo by
flashing the yellow/green wire off the neg. on the battery (I am
using pos. earth) but this made no difference and with the ignition
turned on the the thicker yellow was still warming up as was the
thinner yellow to the ignition light. I fit an earth supply to the
back of the ignition light even though there does not appear to be
one on the wiring diagram. The ignition light now comes on.
Less of a worry is the fuel gauge which shows full, switching the
wires made no difference, the tank is empty
Looking forward to list wisdom
Regards
John
1954 TR2
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