Crap to Cream, MGB Dash wiring challenges, 74 to 77 loom install, helicoil the windscreen brackets.

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Taken on the challenge of installing a 1977 loom into a LH to RH drive MGB, a few challenges ahead but expect it will all be worthwhile in the end.
Dashboard wiring has the challenges, better sorted with the dash out if the car than lying on your back in the footwell.
Windscreen end brackets 3 out of 4 threads stripped, helicoiled to fix forever.
Putting the new main wiring loom into the car body, not as bad as you might think.

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16 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 10

@ooipoppy День назад

Good to see the eye is all good, Marty. I have missed your update 'pings'...😂

@CrapToCream День назад

Thanks Pete, I still posted last week, bit blurred but pushed through it. Hope your enjoying your holiday

@davidwitham5588 День назад

I did a LHD to RHD conversion on an ex USA 1974 B chrome bumper roadster. The wiring up of the dash was a slow job. I used the existing loom and modified it. It is possible that the polarity of the fuel gauge wiring may not matter. Put the wires on the gauge, attach a battery and see what happens.

@CrapToCream День назад

@@davidwitham5588 thanks for that, wasn’t sure about the possibility of damage, all good. My B had a modified loom, and you’ll see in no an earlier video it was a right mess and caused me lots of grief getting my B through the West Australian pits inspection. Hence the reason I’m going for a replacement. All the switches and locations are different, so yes slow is a word that comes to mind.

@David-wy9jl День назад

Just happened to have the dash from my 74 U.S. version sitting in my living room. Facing the back of the dash, the fuel gauge has the darker green with black tracer on the left terminal. On the temp gauge, the darker green wire is also on the left terminal.

@CrapToCream День назад

Sweet, great thank you, perfect, appreciate the assistance. Cheers Marty

@charlesfarran8942 20 часов назад

Hi Marty, I concur with the comment made by David with regards to which wire goes where on the back of the fuel gauge. (This is confirmed on page 145 in Chapter 14 of Rick Astley's book "MGB Electrical Systems" which i know you have a copy). Glad your eye op went OK. Cheers, Charles

@CrapToCream 15 часов назад

@@charlesfarran8942 I checked Rick’s book and I was on page 145, thank you I’ll have another look, however has been confirmed twice now, must be the new eyes, I can see the colours better if nothing else. 😂😂 .

@bradthurlow5503 20 часов назад

I removed those blocks from the top of the windscreen in order to remove the sun visors. The middle one is, of course, the rear view mirror. I filled the holes with rivets for a nice clean look.

@CrapToCream 5 часов назад

Hi Brad, Now there's an idea, you're right the rivets wouldn't look too bad at all as long as everything is symmetrical. I'm not really a fan of the hood clips and I didn't by a convertible to take it out in the rain, options galore here........... Cheers, thanks for the comment, appreciated.