Hello fellow Triumph owners:
I just picked up a very nice 76 TR6 (non overdrive), put about 500 miles on it and so far so good. It's got 78K and about a four year old body job (very good) with original colour yellow paint. Mostly new interior (except for the dash), good frame and running gear in very good order. Motor has been rebuilt and runs strong, has triple webers and header installed but single exhaust? I'll have plenty of weber questions later but here is the immediate issue:
A new wiring harness has been fitted and mostly connected, but the non essential connections are dangling under the dash and other places. I've starting tracing wires for the non working items (reverse lights, horns etc) I have the Bentley manual and have downloaded the wiring diagram everyone refers to here. Neither seems to agree with the car.
For example, the flasher relay should be in the driver's footwell (for left hand drive) according to the Bentley manual but its in the passenger well. Horn wires should terminate on the driver's side behind the wheel well, but in fact can be found on the passenger side.
Inside the engine compartment on the drive's side inner fender are two stacked relays, the top should be for overdrive the bottom the horn, in a non-overdrive car why would wires be connected to the overdrive relay (in fact why would there be relay at all), the horm wires when traced backwards connect to both relays?
Are these anomolies normal or do I have a frankenstein car?
Sorry to be so long winded.
Thanks
Bill
I just picked up a very nice 76 TR6 (non overdrive), put about 500 miles on it and so far so good. It's got 78K and about a four year old body job (very good) with original colour yellow paint. Mostly new interior (except for the dash), good frame and running gear in very good order. Motor has been rebuilt and runs strong, has triple webers and header installed but single exhaust? I'll have plenty of weber questions later but here is the immediate issue:
A new wiring harness has been fitted and mostly connected, but the non essential connections are dangling under the dash and other places. I've starting tracing wires for the non working items (reverse lights, horns etc) I have the Bentley manual and have downloaded the wiring diagram everyone refers to here. Neither seems to agree with the car.
For example, the flasher relay should be in the driver's footwell (for left hand drive) according to the Bentley manual but its in the passenger well. Horn wires should terminate on the driver's side behind the wheel well, but in fact can be found on the passenger side.
Inside the engine compartment on the drive's side inner fender are two stacked relays, the top should be for overdrive the bottom the horn, in a non-overdrive car why would wires be connected to the overdrive relay (in fact why would there be relay at all), the horm wires when traced backwards connect to both relays?
Are these anomolies normal or do I have a frankenstein car?
Sorry to be so long winded.
Thanks
Bill