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Greetings dear people...
It has been a while since I have posted. The project at hand is a 1977 MGB roadster that returned from the body shop a while ago. Among the goodies that had to be accomplished after the body shop was done with the car was the re-attaching of various wires, including replacing a broken fuse box.
Now, I am not so dumb as to simply pull all the wires from the box without labeling and / or making a one-to-one replacement. Obviously, however, the last person so to work on the box was not so careful -- trust me, it was horrid.
So, I've purchased, read, and marked the marvelous book on MGB electrical systems, well worth the $40 from Amazon. I've also downloaded and exploded the diagrams from Advanced Auto Wire (may they be glorified and highly blessed forever and ever for making these available). I've even worked with the diagrams from the Bentley and Hayes manuals.
I can't find the two brown wires that are supposed to attach to the bottom fuse on the fuse box. They seem not to be anywhere near the wiring harness. I also seem to be missing the white wire that goes to the third fuse and provides power to the green circuits (guages, tach, etc.).
A picture may be worth a thousand words. Might some kind person with a similar automobile provide a picture of:
1. starter relay mounted forward of the fuse box,
2. fuse box with the cover removed.
BTW, the car runs after I replaced the fuel lines and put new points in the fuel pump. The rear lights work, the fronts are not yet connected.
The DPO did do a lot of bodging on the electrical system, this is quite apparent. I am thinking unkind and un-Christian thoughts about him, which is not good for he committed suicide about 10 years ago and I am a Lutheran pastor. Any help you may render so to put his soul at rest and to help me forgive his mechanical ineptitude would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
jeff williams - cfiaime
It has been a while since I have posted. The project at hand is a 1977 MGB roadster that returned from the body shop a while ago. Among the goodies that had to be accomplished after the body shop was done with the car was the re-attaching of various wires, including replacing a broken fuse box.
Now, I am not so dumb as to simply pull all the wires from the box without labeling and / or making a one-to-one replacement. Obviously, however, the last person so to work on the box was not so careful -- trust me, it was horrid.
So, I've purchased, read, and marked the marvelous book on MGB electrical systems, well worth the $40 from Amazon. I've also downloaded and exploded the diagrams from Advanced Auto Wire (may they be glorified and highly blessed forever and ever for making these available). I've even worked with the diagrams from the Bentley and Hayes manuals.
I can't find the two brown wires that are supposed to attach to the bottom fuse on the fuse box. They seem not to be anywhere near the wiring harness. I also seem to be missing the white wire that goes to the third fuse and provides power to the green circuits (guages, tach, etc.).
A picture may be worth a thousand words. Might some kind person with a similar automobile provide a picture of:
1. starter relay mounted forward of the fuse box,
2. fuse box with the cover removed.
BTW, the car runs after I replaced the fuel lines and put new points in the fuel pump. The rear lights work, the fronts are not yet connected.
The DPO did do a lot of bodging on the electrical system, this is quite apparent. I am thinking unkind and un-Christian thoughts about him, which is not good for he committed suicide about 10 years ago and I am a Lutheran pastor. Any help you may render so to put his soul at rest and to help me forgive his mechanical ineptitude would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
jeff williams - cfiaime
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