How'd you guess!!

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Unfortunately I have to demonstrate my ignorance here. Are you people making new wiring looms up yourselves or just adding pieces, and (just for arguments sake) if I wasn't as gifted as some of you obviously are, where would I be able to get a new wiring loom from?
Ziff

I don't usually buy looms, just recycle them from wrecked Minis and add/remove cicuits as required. eg: The one in my Moke is from a 76 Clubman S. I take apart some old looms for spare wires, to keep the colour coding factory where possible.

You can buy new looms if you are doing a full on resto. But if you sit down with the wiring diagram and a good workshop manual you should be able to work out your old loom.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

I'm just re-engineering the headlamp circuits, from my `New Era' fused relay on the firewall, forward to the lamps. But I'll tidy up the front parker & blinker wiring a bit too.
<edit> I'm running Wipac QuadOptics, brung 'em in from UK.. they way outshine Lucas' standard sealed beams.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

had one but it went mia bout a year ago out west helping another driver with some leccy problems like no headlights running lights blinkers and some other stuff some wires melted to gether so it was cut solder cut solder cut solder so yeah when we finish had a cuppa and i musta misplaced it still have my solder and flux
went and priced one ouch they have gone up in ten years
makka

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Anonymous moderation means the agro that is built up towards the mods isn't aimed at an individual (fewer "Makk" attacks). Less stress for mods means less moderator "retirements".

I'm doing a full rebuild so I thought it couldn't hurt to throw in a new loom.
Ziff

i've had my headlights all melt on me.. was scary... all the smoke billowing into the cabin etc.

I recon you have simply wired the lights wrong. The high beam and low beam light elements inside the bulb come together to a single common ( -ve) inside the bulb. I reckon you've flipped these around. If you put the common onto the wrong connection all kinds of strange things happen.
Might have to pull all the wires out in the middle and identify which is which before reconnecting them.
By the way, the connectors that originally gave you so much grief are available from Hella. They are sold in car shops and are called Lucas Connectors (Ironic huh?)

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

I saw the same thing in a Narva cattledog. Stick the bare wires in each end and heat with a hot air gun, am I right? They looked like a great idea. If they are in the Narva catalogue they should be available in auto stores, or the better ones anyway.

The following are the catalogue numbers and wire size

56380................1.5-2.5mm
56382................2.5-4.5mm
56384................4.5-7.0mm

They also do blister packs of five per pack and a neat little butane torch just for the job.
After all that typing I have found the page on the net.

http://www.narva.com.au/Terminals_14.html

Second item down the page. I notice the butane torch is not show as it is in my book whbich is a few years old.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

I would think you have earths not earthing properly. Run a temp earth to the light and see what happens. People forget that DC must have good earths to work properly.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

I have pulled the front Loom and will be extending a number or wires and also upgrading some Wires
I'smusing the old Loom, which is every where

well on my Wall

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

That looks like a Sydney strret map not a wiring loom.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.

Not a bad way to get a good look at the whole thing
Ziff

Every where is only 30Minutes from the Hills....Yer right

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Stop Licking the Dog...I Don't Care Who Started It

I can see my house from here!

Do all the people look like ants?

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.