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jlaird

jlaird

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The wireing diagram show the dip switch as a Blue, BlueWhite, and a BlueRed wire and I should think a preaty good size one.

On the end of my loom where what I thought the dip switch went is a black, Red, and GreenRed light weight wire no terminals on the ends.

Have I gone nuts?

Now back from the end a ways (two feet) is a double black wire, a bluewhite, and a bluered heavy wire with plug terminals on the ends.

Hehe, how can this be? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nopity.gif


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Hi Jack usually the lighting circuits in the LBC's use blue/white and blue/red for headlight wiring. A plain blue wire usually supplies the power feed from the light SW to the dimmer. Dunno nothing about the others except that all black wires are ground.---Fwiw---Keoke
 
Jack
the connection for the dip switch should come of off the harness around were the coil is mounted. It runs under the lip for the heater to the driverside.
 
Jack, The double black, blue/white, and blue/red sounds like it should go the the headlights. You sure you don't have some thing flipped around? You need another bit of harness to cross over the car to the head light dimmer. The harness you have crossing over now should run alondside the harness leg you have installed now that runs to the coil and continues to the front of the car to hook to the bonnet harness for the headlights. The red is for the parking lamps, black is for the ground, and green/red LH front flasher. There should be a green/white wire some where unless it comes out of the dimmer harness and runs up the other side of the car to the bonnet for the RH flasher. Did you take a picture of the harness prior to installing it? That would be helpful.

Phil
 
Dimmer should have a solid blue(supply), a blue/white (high beam) and blue/red (low). Black is ground and shouldn't be around the dimmer switch, IIRC. Red is usually the instrument lighting. On the later (MGs) green/red for turn-signals... but not sure about a frogeye. More likely that is a hot wire from a switched source. Running lights?
 
Think I got it, thanks guys.
 
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