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Mike_Berkshire:
Thanks. That won’t have been masked when I got it powder coated so I’ll need to take care of it. I would have missed that!

Mike_Berkshire:
Can anyone tell me what guage/number of strands wire would be right to use for this green wire? Thanks

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I would release the male spade from the connector block by depressing the small tag. Wind back a few strands of insulation to where the wire is good then measure the outside diameter as a starting point. I would use  decent multi stranded copper replacement.

Mike_Berkshire:
I have spent a couple of hours peeling off the manky masking tape to remove the burned out green cable today. I found a number of places where two of the same colour wires from the fuse end of the loom have been soldered to a single wire heading up the headlamp end. Due to the poor quality of the soldering and insulation, I assume that these are something that a previous owner has done: 2 x brown to 1 brown, 2 lime/pink to 1 lime/pink, 2 green/yellow to 1 green/yellow, 2 green/red to 1 green/red, 2 black to 2 black. If this is a PO modification can anyone suggest why they would have done this?

Also, the male spade connector block (6 way) has melted where the green ground wire in it burned out and I would like to replace it. Can anyone recommend a source for a new M&F connector block, M&F spades that are good quality?

Thanks

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I replaced my Plastic multi block connectors all came from Kojaycat.

I could not find the listings on their site so I e-mailed them and after a couple of photos it was all sorted. My loom was a K1 with the single fuse if yours is the same PM and I will look for the invoice that has the part numbers, if it was an online receipt I think it will be lost as I lost a lot of old e-mails..

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