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Postby Triumph TR7V8 coupé » 23 Jul 2012 15:05

Hi,

A while ago I bought this wiper control from Rimmers...

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but they didn't have the connecters that go with the control; can anyone tell me where I can order them / ref.code?

Greetings,J.

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Postby Beans » 23 Jul 2012 17:25

It is meant to be directly fitted between the connectors from switch to the wiring loom.
But clearly in your case the connectors are wrong, so this interval control is not for a TR7.
In case you want to change the connectors have a look at the site of Rick Donkers (http://www.rdae.nl/)

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Postby john 215 » 23 Jul 2012 20:42

Hi,

Or this side of the North Sea -

http://www.holden.co.uk/displayproducts ... Connectors


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Postby rgsSpider » 24 Jul 2012 01:39

Or for us "yanks"! http://www.britishwiring.com/

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Postby Triumph TR7V8 coupé » 24 Jul 2012 18:18

Thanks very much guys great help and I guess not only for me.

Greetings, J.

P.S.; will let you know how it worked out...

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Postby Dave Dyer » 30 Jul 2012 14:37

I'm pretty sure this has come up before.

The delay unit is fitted to later cars and whilst it will physically plug into earlier cars, it won't work because the positions of the wires themselves are in different places within the plugs. so its a case of finding out where the wires go and move them within the plugs.

If anyone knows different? but I'm pretty sure that was the case!

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Postby Triumph TR7V8 coupé » 31 Jul 2012 13:56

Hi,

The connectors won't fit physically on my 78 model at least not near the steering collum where I aspect it to be fitted or should I look somewhere else?.

Greetings, J.

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Postby Odd » 31 Jul 2012 16:40

It only fits <u>directly</u> into the '81 harness version. All the earlier ones are way different...

For instance the male/female nacelle plugs are the other way around in the '81 with the male plug
on the harness part where the earlier ones had the female (and vice verse). I did mine when I had
the harness + dash apart - wouldn't want to do it any other way, it's far to cramped in there to work...

But the one you have in the picture <u>sure</u> looks different to the TR7/8 version (!)
since yours have connectors three pins wide and two rows high (and the TR7/8 version had connections for
the 5-pin Rists connectors who have two rows of pins two wide and a single pin on top in the third row)
so I'm positive you've got one intended for some unknown other vehicle!

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Postby mb4tim » 31 Jul 2012 16:51

Sweet, 1981 only! Can I have it? LOL [:D]

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Postby DNK » 25 Aug 2012 17:53

Found my controller as I was starting to pack stuff away
Mine has different connectors and I hope are correct for my 80

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Postby Odd » 26 Aug 2012 07:00

Don,
that's the one for the 1981 TR7/TR8. There were none for the pre-1981 wiring harness... But, as stated above,
it's easy to re-arrange the connectors on the harness to suit the '81 wiper control's solution.

And if everyone compare that very first picture of the thread starter and yours here: The difference in
connector standards that I wrote about earlier are plain visible - the first one is clearly for some other
unknown vehicle. Doesn't say <u>it</u> won't function as intended - but it's a lot more work to fit it into a TR7/8...

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Postby DNK » 26 Aug 2012 14:58

Thanks Odd
In SC , I think there will be more of a chance of using the wipers than the NW.

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Postby colonel bogey » 26 Aug 2012 15:17

The first picture one looks to be from an early Maestro/Montego.

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Postby john » 27 Aug 2012 14:33

now this brings back memories tried to fit this to a 1980 model tried every combination except obviously the right one so i sold the car and brought an 1981 version [:D]

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