MG news. I am selling the car on, but addressing some simple faults beforehand. First up the hazard warning lights, which never worked, the only sign of life being a feeble click from somewhere dark. Out with the switch which gives better access to the gubbins behind.
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I spy non-standard wiring and equipment. The two exposed Lucar terminals are an original Lucas FL8 unit.
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This is what I pulled out. Two wires are standard whilst the other with blue crimp I traced to the interior lamp earth.
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This is the other flasher unit, again a modern replacement, for the indicators.
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Out with the HBOL wiring diagrams, to make as best I could out of their shitty schematics. And yes, yes, whilst they might have reproduced the manufacturer's diagrams, they still managed to make them worse. British wiring diagrams are usually very good.
I rooted around in the garage for some genuine FL8 flasher units. I was taking an educated guess here, seeing as the one already in the car is of that type, and so are the ones in the Allegro, the two cars being a similar age. I fitted them in accordance with the diagram, with only the additional earth wire left over, and operated the circuits, where some weird shit commenced. The hazard warning lights made a faint tinkling sound and the tell-tales came on constant, starting at half brightness and fading away, whilst the indicators clicked once and stopped. This is where intuition and years of experience come in. I ended up using the Ring unit I'd removed for the hazards, it being rated at 4x21w, and an FL9 unit for the indicators. This had everything working.
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Whilst I was examining the wiring, checking fuse box connections and so on, I noticed this.
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Wtf is that. I pulled it out and tossed it away. The other end can be seen in photo number 2 at the start, a white domestic connection. It was basically disconnected from either side of the fuse box, extended and ran through another fuse, then terminated in nothing. Bizarre. Just replicating what happened at the fuse box.
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