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Installing a VB heavy duty light harness?--Up-date?

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Installing a VB heavy duty light harness?--Update?

I just recieved my heavy duty lighting harness from Victoria British. The directions (with typos and worse) are near impossible to follow. Has any one installed one of these? Can you walk me through installation?

It would seem like the best place to context power is at the starter, then run the wires down the passernger side front fender towards the front. I can tell where you connect the lights (Is there easy access to the lights), but what's the one other connector for? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif If you've installed one of these on a TR6, how did you do it?
 
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I installed one of these in my MGB. The chinese/english directions were great! I just laid mine out over the top of the car(under the bonnet and looke for the easiest routing. The only thing that took time on mine was that I had to disassemble the connectors temporarily so I could route the cable thru holes in the bodywork.I didn't remove the old harness so that it could be returned to original.
 
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I used one when I went to H4s and added foglamps. The lights are wired to work independant of whether the vehicle is running so I took a run from the battery down the drivers side - it's easy to run along the current loom down in the fender.

I mounted the relays on the inner fender - at the front on the drivers side near the expansion tank, and ran the harness across the front across where everything grounds.

You can use the extra connectors in the stock harness down near the radiator on the drivers side to power the relays (the connectors are 4-bullet. I bought extra bullets and the pliers to crimp them). This makes the runs shorter and it looks fairly stock still apart from the bright yellow sheath.

I rewired the pigtails where they come in through the fenders and kept my old connectors to hook up the lights.

Note: I wasn't 100% happy with the relay mounts. I'm going to rewire the car anyway in the future, probably using the advantage kit, so this might not be the best way to do it for you - it is fairly unobtrusive though.

ymmv of course
 
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Thanks for covering this topic guys. I have plans to add the VB light harness with my rebuild.
 
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Perhaps this would be a good place to add a mention of Dan Masters who participates in this forum. He operates a business:
https://www.advanceautowire.com/
that supplies a similar wiring harness. Perhaps you'll find his product and instructions are of higher quality.
 
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Thanks for the link.... I wouldn't complain about the VB harness quality, only the funny directions(translated poorly!).
 
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I would go with dan's stuff over anything else!
DNK
If it ain't broke rewire it anyway
 
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OK, I installed the harness.

As mentioned, I had to take disassemble the connectors to fit them through the smaller opennings to the lights. Everything works, BUT my high beam dash light is on when the low beams are on (the column swith is in the up position) and when I move the switch down the high beams come on.

Did I goof reassembling the bulb connectors? I'm at a loss. Can I hurt something if I just try switching wires in the connectors?
 
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Did I goof reassembling the bulb connectors? I'm at a loss. Can I hurt something if I just try switching wires in the connectors?

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Did you check the beams? If you did goof the high beam indicator light will be on when you really only have the lows on and off for the highs. No big deal just switch the terminals in the connector, you'll be fine, won't hurt anything.
 
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