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[1994 Benny]

Hello TMF'ers,

Just a quick note to say hi, may wife and I purchased a 1994 Rover SPI and are enjoying the car immensely. It is not our daily driver more of a project to keep me out of the pub and a toy for her to drive.

I wanted to say thanks to a lot of you out there as I've been lurking the forums and searching like crazy there is a tremendous amount of knowledge here and you all seam very helpful.

One issue we had was main and dipped light issues, likely a ground but I pulled the dash just to be sure. Sadly there were melted wires and everything wired in red 14 gauge.
I'm adding fog lights and while doing that am installing relays for all the lights, main dipped and spot. Lots of work to make it look tidy. While going through the dash I noted that the ammeter was simply wired between the solenoid and alternator but just into a nut and bolt floating in the engine bay. It was wrapped with 20 layers of electrical tape and then just flex tied to the grill. As I learned here there is really no need to have the ammeter so a rebuild of the dash is underway with that gone.

I've attached two images, can anyone tell me what they are? He black box was behind the dash on the right hand side. It has a couple of wires that lead to a relay and two more that run down under the car and just ended not attached to anything. The relay baffles me as I don't know what it could be turning on. There is a green wire splices into the green wire from the brake switch behind the peddles?

Any help would be great,

Amazing what you have here, thanks again

Brian

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[Ado1379]

You have a feed from the brake switch going into the relay? And then a further 2 wires that lead to nothing? Is that it? Are there any more connections? Does the relay operate when you press the brake pedal? You should be able to hear it or feel it...

[Ado1379]

Oh and welcome!!

[1994 Benny]

Black is earth, blue and red lead to the underside of the car un attached, yellow is not attached to anything and green goes to brake switch. I'm have to head out and see what numbers each is attached to. But I still don't know what it does, did or should do?? Was there something to do with the cat that shut the engine down or alarmed if it was too hot?

[1994 Benny]

Looks like I have am auxiliary fan, can anyone tell me what the controller would look like. Would the relay and controller be behind the dash? Haynes doesn't seam to have much.
Brian

[Badboytunes]

The relay for the aux fan ( i think ) should be next to the fuel cut off switch, located next to the wiper motor on the bulkhead. I had wiring issues with the feed from this causing my fan not to work.

[mk1leg]

Hi..and welcome to TMF and enjoy your MPi....and thats what we are here for to help.......................someone on here will have the answer to a question..............