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I just noticed a small mistake on the original diagram. The white wire which connects the two door courtesy light switches is labelled Red 18g in one spot & White 18g in another, when it is white all the way.

Dr Terry

The diagram is correct because of the way the blinker can works.

The 3rd pin on the blinker can supplies both dash indictors with 12V, with their earth returns going back thru the front blinker globe filaments, so when the LH indictor flashes its dash indicator earths thru the RH front blinker globe & vice versa. A little difficult to follow but that's the way it works.

Likewise with the rear brake light & reverse light scenario. Both FE & FC diagrams show the original US-style flashing brake lights (not tail-lights BTW). The amber rear blinkers weren't introduced until around September '59, so were not mentioned in the service manuals.

For info on the later wiring see the FB commercial pic. Here:http://www.fefcholden.org.au/techinfo/images/ek-wiring-lo.jpg

For those who want to change to the later (amber) blinkers it is easily done by swapping the required terminals. You just use the reverse light wire (light green) for the brake lights & the two brake light wires (violet LH & pink RH) for the two lower amber blinkers. Then disconnect the white wire at the blinker switch connectors (at the steering column) & run it to your reverse light switch, after disconnecting the light green wire. The light green wire now goes to the brake light switch. Done !

Dr Terry

. . . and looking at the FE Standard rat-rod thread has given me ideas.  DIY exhaust from commercial bends, namely.

It rained yesterday, and today I got distracted: six pistons and conrods installed in an FJ engine build.  In doing which I flogged out the ratchet in my piston ring compressor.  Junk.  Forty-some-year-old junk.

So not much to report.

Rob

. . . you've just inspired me to do my own exhaust.

B.t.w., the clamps and flanges look almost exactly like the ones we use at work for vacuum systems.

Rob

Looks sinister with the black chrome!


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The coloured one is the easiest to follow. If you follow the dark blue wire from the LF turn signal all the way back to the Double connector at the column, then the light blue wire back out. It goes to the right hand dash indicator.
Right hand turn signal ends up at left dash indictor.

A bit bigger


And in colour

Hi, I decided to start a new thread, as the one I posted in last is ancient.

OK, so I found a wiring diagram in my old Max Ellery manual. It's hard to read so I copied it all across into a drawing. But as I work my way through copying the drawing I find some errors. Most obvious being that the wiring for the indicators suggest the LHF indicator is connected to the RH dash indicator, and vice versa. I can't imagine that is right. It also shows a provision for backup (reverse) lights, and that the wiring for the rear indicators interrupts the power for the tail lights, like the American style wiring. I know this is correct for utes, but mine has separate rear indicators, and the tail lights have 2 wires for stop and tail lights. I have no reverse lights, and no sender on the box. Its been about 25 years since I took it off the road but I know that's how mine is set up. Did I change my reverse lights to indicators back in the day and forget, or did some come this way? Either way there seems to me to be a few errors in the wiring diagram.
Could someone with some wiring knowledge and experience please run their eye over this and tell me if I'm wrong. I'd rather know now before I redraw a new diagram with details the way I see them.
Attached is my first drawing, exactly as per the book. The wiring in my FE is not the same layout or colour at the rear.

I also applied the same details in colour if that helps.

Thanks guys.


ekute It's not black chrome, just gloss black.

Lookin good, any secrets to the black chrome?


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