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High Mount TD Brake and Turn Signals
by Charlie Baldwin
(Note: this information has been provided by
Charlie Baldwin. The original is in the form of a Word
document that can be downloaded by clicking
Here .
Charlie's description follows:)
I put the pictures into a word document and added a
little bit of commentary. Sorry, some of the pics are a bit fuzzy.
Hopefully you can get the idea. You discard the bulb mount that
comes with the original Lucas lamp and just glue the MR-11 spot to
the back of the reflector and it is mounted to the housing when you
push the chrome ring into it. The MR-11 should be available other
places, just search on the internet. There is also one type that
has a two pin mount that can be bought at Lowe's or Home Depot for
low voltage accent lighting in your home. I determined that the
pins and the sockets that these use look kind of weak for something
bouncing along the highway, so the bayonet mount seems better.
The wiring of the lamps is fairly simple. The sockets have two
leads, one hot and the other ground. I grounded the one to a bolt
that I used to mount the lamp to the bracket. The hot leads I put
into black plastic harness covers (British Wiring) and ran between
the gas tank and the body down below the rear splash pan on the left
side where there are a bunch of bullet connectors. There are white
with brown and white with purple wires under there which are the
turn signals for each side. The turn signal relay flashes them
together for the brake lights. So all I did was replace the single
female bullet connectors with double ones, solder male bullets onto
my new wires and plug them. The leads, of course were not long
enough, so I spliced on some wire the correct colors purchased also
from British Wiring. My TD did not come with turn signals, so when I
replaced the harness many years ago, I used the harness that had
turn signal wires and the dash mounted dipper switch.
As I stated to John Gunnell, I have a Signal Stat turn signal switch
which has the relay to make the brake lights and turn signals all
work together.
Probably this is all I will write up on this, at least until I have
some more time.
A few years ago I used this same method to change the reflectors on
the rear of my Austin-Healey into brake and turn signal lights. I
wrote that up and it was published in a couple of the Healey club
magazines. That is when I decided to apply the same principal to
the TD.
Charlie Baldwin.
(508) 746-6735
email to:Bud@Ttalk.info
Created 4/20/09