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This is a fuse/wire question with a story. 1966 Mk3 Sprite.
It has been a while since I have posted. I have been so focused on getting the motor back together, I have bugged my family. My last post talked about my new engine. It is done and so far seems to be running very well. It is the 1275 bored out to 1363, still working on tuning. Hap is also building me a head so I have only the stock head for now. I must say I am very happy with the switch from twin SU’s to the single HIF44.I have pictures but my computer is not happy when I download them from my camera.
My late last night story, standing in the garage listening to her purr and looking at my new headlights and patting my self on the back.. I did the conversion from Moss, upgrade to the heavy current front harreness with relays. I was thinking Wow finally everything is working and it is almost time to start my paint research. Then the smoke started rolling out of the dash. Well I disconnected the bat and started cursing, my brand new main wiring harness now not so new.(New last year) So what I see is the red running wires from the main lighting switch are melted. I added 2 fuses to the main head lights (30amp), guess I should have added a fuse to the red wire; I will add two fuses to the red wire today and replace the red wire. Makes me so mad my beautiful wiring harness now looks British again. Since the headlight circuits are separate I am fairly certain my problem has nothing to do with my headlight upgrade, just coincidence it happened. So now the fun begins, I think it might be the front marker/turn lights who knows.
Question
What extra circuits do most protect, and what size fuses do you use.
After today I will have 2- 30 amp headlight fuses, 2 -10 amp fuses for the red wires. One fuse is for the panel lights etc and the other fuse for the running lights. I also just did the conversion from positive gnd to negative and switched to a Moss alternator upgrade. I wanted to cry last night, I had only 3 minutes of dreaming about stripping her down this winter for a full tub paint and then the princess of darkness struck. Dam British engineers what were they thinking when they designed the wiring.
Cheers Phil
This is a fuse/wire question with a story. 1966 Mk3 Sprite.
It has been a while since I have posted. I have been so focused on getting the motor back together, I have bugged my family. My last post talked about my new engine. It is done and so far seems to be running very well. It is the 1275 bored out to 1363, still working on tuning. Hap is also building me a head so I have only the stock head for now. I must say I am very happy with the switch from twin SU’s to the single HIF44.I have pictures but my computer is not happy when I download them from my camera.
My late last night story, standing in the garage listening to her purr and looking at my new headlights and patting my self on the back.. I did the conversion from Moss, upgrade to the heavy current front harreness with relays. I was thinking Wow finally everything is working and it is almost time to start my paint research. Then the smoke started rolling out of the dash. Well I disconnected the bat and started cursing, my brand new main wiring harness now not so new.(New last year) So what I see is the red running wires from the main lighting switch are melted. I added 2 fuses to the main head lights (30amp), guess I should have added a fuse to the red wire; I will add two fuses to the red wire today and replace the red wire. Makes me so mad my beautiful wiring harness now looks British again. Since the headlight circuits are separate I am fairly certain my problem has nothing to do with my headlight upgrade, just coincidence it happened. So now the fun begins, I think it might be the front marker/turn lights who knows.
Question
What extra circuits do most protect, and what size fuses do you use.
After today I will have 2- 30 amp headlight fuses, 2 -10 amp fuses for the red wires. One fuse is for the panel lights etc and the other fuse for the running lights. I also just did the conversion from positive gnd to negative and switched to a Moss alternator upgrade. I wanted to cry last night, I had only 3 minutes of dreaming about stripping her down this winter for a full tub paint and then the princess of darkness struck. Dam British engineers what were they thinking when they designed the wiring.
Cheers Phil
