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As an electrical engineer the one thing I can say about the original wiring for the car is that it was poorly designed, poorly executed and not very safe. If you absolutely must have a "restored to factory original" car, go get and original harness and install it.
If you want safe and reliable, get the Rebel harness from Paul A. Add a 350A fuse coming right off the battery and a 40-60A fuse in line with the battery feed to the fuse block and you will have a bullet proof and smoke free system that will work reliably no matter what shorts out or breaks elsewhere in the system.[/
The original style harness is safe and reliable if you use common sense and use it as intended when the cars were new. If you compare an original harness to the original style harness being sold now you'll see the difference in the way the new one is put together. That includes very little use of connectors as well as the use of current style terminals and covers. Another advantage is that the new harness is made using the correct color coded wires in the proper way. Use of the proper color coding,etc. eliminates headaches for a later owner if you sell the car. That means no cussing the DPO.
The electrical systems gave problems in these cars back in 1970 due to corrosion, poor contacts mating and bad grounds. The original fuse system was not properly partitioned, and long path circuits were not fused at the sources.
I say "back in 1970" because I was a 14 year old kid, working for my father fixing the problems in these cars, that he sold in the 1960's. When Chrysler bought Rootes, and then a year later pulled the plug on the Ford powered Tiger, my father took on the Peugeot dealership as Rootes died off. All of that said, fixing the many problems of Sunbeam-Lucas electrical issues, and becoming a radio amateur (WA1QDI back then) ended up with me getting my degrees in electrical engineering. Automotive electronics no more. These days my money making is in medical electronics, if you end up in a hospital there's a good chance you get wired up to something I have designed.
Many that wanted an updated British car have bought a Miata.
I am in Stockbridge Georgia. I need someone who can Rewire my 1963 Sunbeam Alpine. Original wire harness is out and need to Rewire using Painless Harness. Really need a Good Tech guy. My Email beachbumanu @gmail.
putting in an original wiring harness? new or not that's not the best way forward unless original from the factory is how you want things.Order my wiring from Classic Sunbeam Auto Parts in NY , and a Prosperous laminated color chart (very detailed) and I'm in Ormond
Beach Florida. So wish me luck,I'm not certain what else I'll need, so " here goes!
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