Headlamp motor circuit breaker

[Monkeyzak]

Can anyone tell me where this is located?

It is number 7 in the BL book

[busheytrader]

In the same area as the relays..but mine was hanging free not attached to anything

It's a small flattish black / brown item. https://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/Item--i-151244

Rimmers website is a good source of reference as you often get a photo as well as the parts book drawing.

[Monkeyzak]

Its burnt out. A mates mates an autoelectrician. He came tonight and found this was the problem. Bypassed it and it works. I'll order one.

He said that the electrics have been messed about with and they've done stupid and irresponsible things. He's going to sort the lot including tonight where he sorted a few things. There's an after market immobilizer that's causing hassle. £50 plus parts so I think that's ideal. He's going to strip the dash out, test, clean and replace

[Monkeyzak]

£30 for that tiny part. Wow. Triumph stuff is always expensive I think

[UKPhilTR7]

It is good that you have found the issue. With your mates mate coming around to take the dash out and clean everything. There is an old saying on this site. If it is not broken, don't fix it. Just be careful you do not create more work for yourself.

Oh yes bits for our Triumph's can be expensive. It could be worse though. Stag bits command a high price.

[busheytrader]

Taking the dashboard out, my favourite job, not. Al least on a DHC you can pull back the roof and take it out from the top. Haynes says you have to take the steering wheel but you don't. I can't imagine doing it in the confined space of a FHC.




At least all the connectors and earthing points will be exposed for cleaning.

S and S, Robsport and James Paddock carry used parts and might have the circuit breaker you're after if you're prepared to buy it secondhand. Rimmers is great for having all the exploded drawings straight out of the parts book on their website.

[Hasbeen]

At their age you'd have to be very lucky to find a 7/8 that had not been mucked with by some clown.

Monkeyzak I suggest you don't migrate to Oz if you don't like UK prices for Triumph bits. I paid A$156 for my last headlight switch.

Hasbeen

[Monkeyzak]

Hasbeen

That's a very topical comment you've made!! I've used to live in Melbourne and my old employer has asked me if I'd go back. If I come back to Oz I'll buy a Holden.

[Stag76]

Taking the dash out can be depressing when the standard of the wiring is revealed.
It is not very well made, with bundles of wire wrapped in sticky-tape passing heavy current
through switches and connectors left over from the 1960's. Rumour has it that the original
Lucas Quote was rejected twice before it was lowered enough to be acceptable to the bean-counters.
Even putting the switches on the earth side of the lights and adding a few relays would have
made a big difference.
I took mine out, and ended up removing all the wiring and starting from scratch, which is still a
work in progress.

[sonscar]

Car wiring is Black Magic to many owners and indeed they mostly do not need to know how any of it works,but 40 years later it mostly does.Put your TV or Tablet Or laptop outside for a few weeks occasionally kiking it around and see how robust it is.(but then again you may be surprised)Steve..

[Cobber]

Hasbeen

That's a very topical comment you've made!! I've used to live in Melbourne and my old employer has asked me if I'd go back. If I come back to Oz I'll buy a Holden.

If you do come back to Oz, by the time you get here, they won't be making Holdens anymore, production stops soon.
GM will be gluing Holden badges on whatever front wheel drive crap they drag in on the cheap from overseas.

If you do come to Melbourne, I"ll be able to help you sort your TR out.

[Hasbeen]

You must have an addiction to orphans then Monkeyzak.

As Cobber says, Holdens are about to become no more.

If you are serious, have a look at house prices, rents & car prices prevailing in Oz, particularly capital cities today, & negotiate a suitable wage package.

Hasbeen

[Monkeyzak]

Hey hasbeen

I know Melbourne very well from living there previously. I lived in Richmond for a while then settled in port Melbourne. I remember it was about a million bucks if we were to buy the flat. It was something that stopped my wife wanting to stay

I still have a brother in healesville so a regular visitor

The biggest shock I got was the price of second hand cars. You pay lots for second hand cars!!!

Australia is not a cheap country any more. That aside. I still love it.

[Monkeyzak]

I used to love driving my brother's falcons. He always had sporty ones. And his monaro was one of my favourite cars I've ever driven. Massively underrated.

Nobody wants to pay the fuel bills and pollution taxes. They are from a different era now

[Tamas Petrunin]

A mates mates an autoelectrician. He came tonight and found this was the problem. Bypassed it and it works. I'll order one.

He said that the electrics have been messed about with and they've done stupid and irresponsible things. He's going to sort the lot including tonight where he sorted a few things.

Not meaning to be being nasty but ask your "autoelectrician" if he has any scotchlok connectors ? If he has then I wouldn't let him near any car of mine.

I often come across bodged wiring that is just a electrical fire waiting to happen in my day job.