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UK car, 1970.

The wiring diagram shows one thick brown and one thin from the starter solenoid to the alternator. Another brown wire is shown as going from the same terminal on the solenoid to a hidden connection (shown as a dot) and onwards to various places including the lowest fuse in the fusebox.

On my car, there's a brown (connected to a big male spade) which seems to go to the fusebox. The brown at the fusebox is probably one of the spurs from the dot connection I think. Then there is another brown connected to the other spade on the same fuse (unfused side) which I think goes off to the starter relay. I want to replace the brown with the big spade as it is broken. Does anybody know if the dot joint is accessible so that I could wire direct to that? The wires after the 'dot' go to the lighting switch and the ignition switch. Rather than cut out the broken bit and replace with a new wire, and as I was intending to add a relay to the ignition circuit and to the headlights, another option is to remove the old brown and wire two new browns to the switches, perhaps through fuses, and rethink the relay strategy.

Anybody (particularly Paul Hunt) got any better ideas please?

Thanks,

Neil
Neil Lock

Neil-
Email me your address and I will send you "Electrobabble".doc which pretty well covers all of it.
FRM
FR Millmore

This thread was discussed on 04/04/2007

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