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TR6 Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

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Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

dale, actually on Dan's Panel schematic that is how it is done. With the Tr stock wiring, power comes from a soldered mess that feeds alot of devices.

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Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

Tinster said:
Julian,

Here is a photo for your reference. As everyone is well
aware by now, I know very little of these cars and even
less about auto mechanics. But I take good photos.

Removing the tranny cover is just such an awful task,
I hope to never do it again.

I believe I (or you) could get at the reverse switch
with a little bit of ingenuity, a rorozip and some cajones
thrown in. My tranny cover has an opening for the wires.
The switch is just below - 2 spades I'm thinking.

Yes, the switch is underneath the tranny cover.
Yes, the power wire is green
Yes, the sending wire is green with brown stripe.

Me? I'd pull back the tranny tunnel carpet piece ,
find the tranny tunnel hole for wires, widen it with
a rotozip until I could finger touch the switch.

The reverse switch is power fed off the same green wire lead
that feeds the brake light switch.

But then, I could be dead wrong and full of hot air!!
I know very little but i take good photos!

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Yes, excellent photos: thanks!

Now, are those wires normally connected in the passenger compartment, or in the engine compartment? The wires I have are in the engine compartment, emerging from behind the dash.

I have no carpet in my car, and a new Moss transmission tunnel cover, which should be easy to remove (famous last words), so I will take it off, and have a look.
 
Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

Those power leads are behind the instrument cluster toward the cent on mine.
 
Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

Weren't the reverse switches in different locations for different years of TR6 ? I thought they moved from the top to the side around 74 or so. And this is also one of the areas where non-US cars differ from US-spec.

My point is that you should probably check that the switch only has continuity in reverse before buttoning it back up. It also wouldn't hurt to check the voltage drop across the switch (with the backup lights on) while you have access to it. The originals were not particularly unreliable IMO ... but if it's an original, it's still almost 40 years old. And some of the replacements have been pretty bad.
 
Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

DNK- Once again, point proved without a doubt.
Tinster knows almost zero about these cars after
toiling away for almost two years on a daily basis.

But I take good photos!! Ha, Ha!!

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Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

Closer investigation of the PO's fuel pump revealed a litany of no-nos:

1) the fuel filter was mounted backwards
2) the rubber fuel hoses had serious kinks in them
3) the hose clamps had been tightened not enough in some places and far too much in others: the rubber was mashed up and leaking!
4) as mentioned before, the grounding lead wasn't getting a good ground.

Probably these problems were causing a starvation of fuel.

I've removed everything and will re-fit it properly.

Randall wondered about the voltage controller for the gauges: was this connected, and if not could it be the cause of the high temperature reading on that gauge? Well, good call! - after fishing around under the dash, I found the controller, and it was not bolted to the bodywork. My understanding of how these things work is that they need an earth, otherwise the voltage in will equal the voltage out. Later, I'll connect it to earth and test the voltage, but this may well be the cause of the "overheating"!
 
Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

I doubt they were (are) causing your fuel starvation problems since you said it ran okay with the choke pulled partly out but those problems need to be resolved anyway.
 
Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

Makes you wonder how the mind of DPO's works
some times? DPO Pedro had a buggered up shifter also.

You find any metric fasteners in your car yet?
Or chewing gum holding things together?
Scotch tape wire splices?

I sure hope your car has not been Pedro-ized.

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Re: Progress on the '71 TR6 "La Belge Bloketastic"

Tinster said:
Makes you wonder how the mind of DPO's works
some times? DPO Pedro had a buggered up shifter also.

You find any metric fasteners in your car yet?
Or chewing gum holding things together?
Scotch tape wire splices?

I sure hope your car has not been Pedro-ized.

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I can honestly say that 2 LBC's this year and I couldn't have found 2 better PO's anywhere. Both went above and beyond doing eveything they did to the cars to the 9's.

Thank you God.
 
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