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Spitfire 1973 Spitfire Wiring Harness

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ScottFromNH

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I was told the wiring harness on the spitfire's are nothing but trouble. Does anyone know if they have an after market simplified wiring harness for spitfires.

I ask this as my car was in a shed for 10 years and whatever was living in their use sections of the wire for sharping their teeth.
 
Anything you use that is not stock you will have to add connectors and rewrap and such.
https://www.britishwiring.com/Tri_Spit.PDF

If your looking for plug and play you can't beat the stock system
Not sure if the ones these people get are the same as the one I got for the Wedge alt/starter connection it is purdy

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Ask Josh to send you a pic of it if he has one
 
Dunno where you heard that.

They are actually pretty simple and with some care will do what you want.

The unusual thing about the harness is that the super genius at Lucas put the fuses after the switches.

If you make one change would be to put fuses at the starter solenoid to protect all of the feed wires.

The other thing is to clean every switch and connection and put them back together using electrical grease to keep them from corroding again.

Use the correct fuses, and make sure the contacts at the fuse box are clean and not sprung, because they depend on the contact of the fuse to get the electrons in all of the circuits. Cleaning tensioning and greasing the fuse box contacts usually solves a lot of problems.
 
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