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SCguy

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Looks like any easy fix, but the glues I've tried won't adhere to the plastic and metal. I have two of these broken light sockets on my new wiring harness. I'm beginning to think I'm going to have to buy a used harness just so I can reused the old sockets, which of course kind of defeats the purposed of installing a new harness to start with. Any thoughts? A special glue? Epoxy just peeled of the plastic of the new harness.


 
Try Ducco Cement. It's really good glue. It works on metal and plastic among other things.
 
I think you are going to have trouble finding any kind of glue to hold that together. Is that cage originally roll crimped? Can you carefully un-roll the edge and then try to re-roll it to the socket?
If not you may be looking at getting a replacement for it.
British Wiring has all of these bulb holders avilable if you decide to get a new one.
Here is a link to them
https://www.britishwiring.com/
 
I believe that the cage tha came off your sockets is also what provides the ground for the socket as well, so glue would not be an option even if it was to hold.
Can you contact the company you got the harness from? if not, do you still have the old harness (or are the sockets bad on that one)?
Other than that, you'd have to find someone with scavenged ones from something... nothing here, sorry.
 
Larry, as stated above, British Wiring are the people to use for any wiring problems. They are really nice people, the wife is a Brit and will help you with anything you are having a problem with. (They are the secret source for most if not all of the harnesses that TRF sells "from England".) A couple of things: remember that many of the light sockets use the fixture housing as a ground source so make certain that these areas are clean and the fixture snaps in with authority (as noted in an above post). TR6 tail-light fixtures are famous for losing their grounds. I have resorted to both soldering the light fixtures themselves (I think Buckeye Triumphs has a tech report on this, may be archived.) and grounding the fixture with wire to the body. Another tip is to buy the bullet connectors from British Wiring along with the special crimper they sell. Expensive but priceless! ($50) I crimp and solder all bullet connectors, very original and an excellent way to make good wire connections, in spite of all the bad press that "the Prince of Darkness" has gotten. I digress but another excellent tool to buy is the snap connector from King Richard (on the web) that automatically and perfectly makes up snaps for tops (hoods), tonneau covers, underwear, or anything else you might want to make up using Dot-brand snaps. Greatest tool I ever bought.

Bill
 
FWIW; Same thing happened to my new harness. After a few false starts I settled on a product called 'Gorilla Glue'. It is available a your local hardware store. Still holding after a year.
Sidebar; It is a bummer to buy a new harness and have the bulbs pop out like that especially when the original set was still secure after 30 odd years. Actually not an uncommon phenom when replacing original parts on our cars.
 
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