She Runs After 38 years but

[HAN8L1965]

Straightened out my distributor wires put it all toghether flipped the swith and we have ignition, runs nice that is until I. Well I did not have a set of keys so I ordered a new ignition from moss, itmes different from the one I had and am not quite sure about the wiring.

At number position: Using numbers on back side of unit

1 red/brown
2 white
3 red/white

On the old unit I had
start-r/w
battery-white
ignition-red/brown

The PO had all the white wires tied together, I separated them for the new ignition, the engine is stalling out now after startup, I do hear and see fuel coming in. Any suggestions.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! close.

Mark

 

[jlaird]

Choke???????

 

[Luke_Healey]

I can't seem to find a MKIII diagram online at the moment.. I have one somewhere.. Anyway, all those white wires do indeed need to be together.. They seem to supply everything with voltage.

Here's a bugeye diagram with color codes.. Perhaps it's similar:

https://austin-healeys.com/an-5diagram.jpg

 

[jvandyke]

Does the coil get 12 volts on start up then back to the resisted 7 or whatever for running? Sounds like it's only getting the initial start up juice, not the running juice? Something like that?

 

[Bayless]

According to the MK III diagram I have, the white wires do go to #2. There should be at least 3 of them. One goes to the IGN light, one to the tach and one to the fuse block to feed everything else. Then there should be a brown/blue wire to #3 which comes from AI on the regulator. Finally, there should be a white/red wire to #1 that goes to the starter solenoid. Posts #1 and 2 are the ones closer together.

I don't see any brown/red (not red/brown) anywhere in the system. If you do have such a wire, trace it to see if it goes to AI on the regulator. If so that's the one that should be brow/blue. If not, I suspect your DPO may have cobbled the wiring for you. Bet of luck.