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MG MGB Technical - '67 wiring harness routing solutions

Greetings all!

I am finalising works on the complete wiring harness and sub-harnesses on my soon to be re-sprayed and restored pride and joy and was wondering if anyone had some photos of similar projects they have undertaken?

I have replaced wires, re-terminated and wrapped in cloth loom tape and am very happy with the result and now I want to route the wiring in the neatest way possible throughout the engine bay etc.

If you have some ingenious solutions you would care to share I would be very happy to see them to get some ideas.

Once I have finished up the project I will also be looking at submitting a couple of shots for the forum.

Thanks for the help and interest!

C Brennan

Position the wiring in the engine bay? Or install it?

'Routing' to me means how it is positioned, but I'd expect a standard harness and standard components would mean it would be positioned as originally.

For installation a 67 should be quite easy as it has less wires than later models. I did an 80 with quite a chunky harness. The main run through the engine bay has several 'tails' coming off it, I taped some of these forwards and some backwards to try and avoid any very thick bits, before insertion through the bulkhead from the cabin. Fit slit tubing over the edges of the bulkhead hole to avoid nicking the covering.
PaulH Solihull


Paul,

Thanks for the response, yes positioning and installation of course. Over the years I have seen some particularly neat jobs conducted and as I was not at that stage of restoration at the time I did not retain examples unfortunately.

Just looking at clamping points and doing things as neatly as possible in order to maintain as uncluttered a look as possible.

In particular around the volatge stabiliser, fuse block and headlight end, plus the budle effect where the rear harness joins the main.

Cheers,

C Brennan

This thread was discussed on 26/04/2012

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