Wiring the beasts.....

[Bob Carriere]

So many pit falls I decided to start a new thread.....may be it can become a section of its own.

Frustrated today......

spent the morning taping all the rear lights with the old fashion tar electrical tape..... tested the light and one brake light is not working...... remove all the tape and found that the original metal connectors on the 1940 pigtail is not quite the match for modern bayonnette type and can easily not engage fully and slip out...... solution cut off and replace the original male connector with a 2016 connector.... so confident that it is now working I retaped all the connectors with plastic tape but before covering all the plastic tape with the old style tar cotton tape.... I tested the system and the same light is not working..... now about to trace the cross over wires to the pass. side......

One more frustration..... got some original switches....NOS.... still wrapped sealed in cosmolene....... they have a very heavy bloom of white oxidation and one was actually rusted...... maybe it rained in Oshawa the day the box was sealed..... so I opted for after market switches with the little ball at the end similar to the originals..... but the orientaton of the off/on tab means the switches are showing off when in the one position....... solution from Grant..... take the switches apart carefully rotate half of the assembly 180 degrees re=assembled and now they work..... by the way those are the Princess Auto switches...... I prefer them to the originals as they have screws to hold the eyelet connectors.... the original have tiny little jewelry screws that were corroded.

Now back to the barn.....

Cheers