TI Wiring - New M&H Harness Question

[Richard M.]

On a 67 L71.......after looking at the archives for about an hour or so, along with Dave Fiedler's diagrams, I have a mock up of the TI wiring done. I had to cut the terminal off the #12/#18 pink wires which normally go to the coil +. The #18 gets a new female terminal(male plastic plug), which connects to the pink pigtail coming off of the distributor "L" connector. This goes to the solenoid "R" terminal for full voltage starts. The rest was relatively straightforward using the diagram.

So the #12 pink wire ends that are in the engine/forward lamp harness.....These are left unconnected right? These are marked in the photos as "?#1"(cut from pink pair to coil+) and "?#2"(ballast resistor).

How were these normally left disconnected on original builds? Just taped up or was there a special end to insulate them. Both are unpowered/unused, being the same wire going nowhere for TI.

Rich

[Rich P.]

Re: TI Wiring - New M&H Harness Question

Rich,

most untouched 66 67 TI cars I have worked on have had the pink wire cropped right to the trunk of the harness with no tape on them. Some have even had them pulled through (Thats what I do , just remove the wire it pulls out easy) I know the AIM shows the wire wrapped up and taped to the harness but that is not typical of what I have observed.

Rich

[Richard M.]

Re: TI Wiring - New M&H Harness Question

Rich,

I think I'll just yank it out then.

Thanks,
Rich

[Richard M.]

Re: TI Wiring - New M&H Harness Question

One other question.....

In the M&H kit, I got the terminals and plastic connectors to make the mods to tie the engine harness to the TI harness.

I got one female spade terminal with male plastic housing, and one male spade terminal with female plastic housing. I only had to use the female spade terminal with male plastic housing, which is used to connect the TI harness #18 pink(pigtail on the distributor "L" shaped connector), to the #18 pink wire which goes to the solenoid "R" position(this is part of the engine harness).

I didn't have to use the male spade terminal with female plastic housing. There is already one on the #12 pink coming out of the firewall which comes from the ignition switch.

Did I miss something? I didn't need to use the other connector, right? Why did I get that?

Thanks,
Rich

[Timothy B.]

Re: TI Wiring - New M&H Harness Question

Rich,

Could it be the new harness has parts to fit cars that originally did not have TI so that pink firewall wire needs to have that end installed..