1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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Jpsmit thanks for the tip, it wasn't till I read that I noticed how dirty the connections were so I have started to clean up the connections and it is making an improvement.

79Cord it turns out that I am a clot and confused the green/yellow wire (tail light) with the green/red wire (indicator)which is why it wouldn't work!

in the last few days I made a few copies of the wiring loom and with my bestest tastiest crayons I have and coloured in the lighting loom to make it easier to read, I have one for the engine, charging circuit and extras

Tonight I have had a little play after work despite the cold the dusk helped me see the lights working properly which has been useful and after 5 mins of cleaning terminals I got this result

Full beam works too all I need to do is fit the numberplate lamp. From there I got cracking with the gauge lights which have been bugging me for days then I remembered the first day I drove it in the dark - I had spent the day learning how to drive the car when I found a random switch under the dash which as it turns out allowed me to turn the dash lights off but I didn't see the point really!

The switch was pretty knackered and a few years ago I made 2 bridge using a piece of wire and 2 male connectors and it stayed that way for 2 years... then I found tonight that the wire wasn't that well done so it was my fault but I have fixed it

I was very happy with that and I got more sorted

after finding the missing earth point under the dash and as soon as that was sorted the wipers were moving albeit slowly but I was ecstatic at this point. I need to sort the heater blower but it will get sorted soon

I have a video of the right indicators but I can't get the video to upload, the front rear and dash light work but the rear left works - the only thing I have changed is the front indicator so I will go over that again as it is most likely to be the problem


all in all its another big hurdle!