monkie

It looks like a bathroom waste pipe show room Can't say it's my cup of tea.

Thank you for the advice, points noted. I made my own engine harness a while ago now as a practice run using the correct loom tape, not cheap insulation tape and as you say I ensured it was tightly bound by the tape. As I have dissected the main harness (my biggest problem being the bodges round the fuse box) I have come to the realisation that it is really just a bundle of lots of little looms all combined.

Thank you for the tips. I am going to buy a full reel of black wire for the earths as I am going to add an earth to each corner to connect to the gearbox. It is amazing how much wire is needed when it's all added up. To go from the connectors on the main harness to the rear off side for the chassis harness I think I measured 5m but bought 7m to play it safe. I'm worried now

I'm very much committed now. I took the loom out of the 110 just before Christmas, I have taken drawings, measurements, compared sections I'm not sure of with circuit diagrams and made my own diagrams to help. The loom is now broken down into component parts by circuit sat in a box in my dining room for me to use as a reference. I am now drawing up a list of the things I need to order to make a new loom with upgrades such as econoseal connectors and relays for glowplugs, head lights and wipers.

Thank you, that is so obvious now you say it! I will do this.

That's all I can find.

On my original loom, the wires are joined and soldered with the the crimps in the picture below. I have tried searching on all auto wiring websites I know of (autoaparks being one of them) but can't find them. Does anyone know where I can source them please and what they are called?

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There are some ideas on this thread

Wow, that's a very tidy engine bay. Mine looks like mess in comparison

I will measure. IIRC they are fed off 60 AMP rated wire. I guess about 10amp draw each? So a 50 amp fuse should cover me. But that's all guess work. I will measure to be sure.

Another question, I don't like the idea of the quantity of unused live wires in the 110 running all over the place. Has anyone added in fuses to protect originally unfused items like the glowplug circuit and other items?

Thank you for that information, those diagrams are for later models than my 110, however there is some commonality and the wiring colour codes are helpfully set out in those diagrams.

As I understand the diagrams (I have a Tdi relay I acquired a few years ago and fortunately had the sense to keep it safe) I need a white wire from the ignition switch, a white/red wire to the ignition switch, a thick brown feed from the live bus on the starter motor solenoid, thick yellow black to number 4 glow plug, a thin yellow/black to the dash warning light and a black wire to earth. Then I should be in business with proper timed glowplug heating.

Here are some pics of the glow plug dash light wiring. You can see the yellow/black wire from the dash light goes to a moulded connector and joins to a brown/red as per the circuit diagrams. There is also an unused yellow/black. I'm beginning to think this loom may not be original and could be a later loom someone has retro fitted. All the wiring at the fuse box has been extended by a few cm. As you say it is a right mess and well overdue an overhaul. I am doing as per the advice from FridgeFreezer and others, taking my time, replacing connectors with super/econoseal, using a proper durite crimping tool and methodically mapping where everything should be. I'll keep on plodding onwards. It would be nice if it is all back in by the end of Jan as a target.

... And I wondered why I had fuse problems, thank you previous owners for splicing in different coloured wires when you upgraded the fuse box!

As my 110 (October 1988) is getting towards the Tdi era, I think my loom does have a few "Tdi-isms" in it.

Fantastic, thank you Ralph. That makes sense. I'm figuring out what wires I am adding in (for head light relays and glow plug timer relay) and what wires I can delete from my loom - This is one of the ones I can delete. I have found a few differences in my loom to the circuit diagrams I have. One of which that had me stumped for a bit is the yellow/black wires. I have figured that the brown/red wire from the glow plug feed goes to a connector and then becomes yellow/black for the dash warning light for glow plugs. I'm now commited to this and there's no turning back, although I think I'm beginning to discover why you can charge £600 for a new loom!

I've got a White with purple trace wire in my loom and I can't figure out what it is for from the diagrams. Anyone know what this wire is for?

... But don't do my bank balance any good when they give me grand ideas

Also, can you add a photo of where the diesel is that you are asking about?

Could you tell us what engine you have fitted in your 110? Is it a 2.5TD (19J) or has it got a later engine such as a 200/300 Tdi or maybe a none Land Rover engine? If you arent sure, there is a Wikipedia page detailing the land rover engines. It's probable that it is a 19J 2.5TD if original.

I'd gratefully receive any information please. The wiring diagrams I have (land rover 90/110 manual and Haynes) seem to be quite generic the deeper I go in to the details.

But most importantly you did the right thing and got someone out of trouble to safety. I was very glad of a kindly Land Rover driver who pulled an inexperienced 18 year old me out of floods in my first car. Life lesson learnt but was taken out of danger to wait for recovery.

I'm trying to identify all of the relays on my main loom - I have 5 (I will be adding a glow plug timer relay and two relays for the head lights). I am confident that I have identified 4 of them but would like some help please: 1 - (inside the fuse box area) Starter relay - no questions. 2- (inside the fuse box area marked LP110) Flasher relay (I assume this provides the flashing function for either the direction indicator and the hazard warning?) Is this true? 3 - (inside the dash marked PRC4427 Voltage sensitive switch) for rear window heater - no questions. 4 - (inside the dash with the following wires coming from it; brown, black, blue, blue) - I'm figuring from the wiring diagrams that this is the rear fog inhibitor; how does this work as I can't figure it out from the wiring diagram in the Haynes and do I need it? 5 - (inside the dash with the following wires coming from it; blue/white, black, blue, white/green) - is this to do with the dim/dip circuit? If so, I have disconnected this, so can I ignore it? I've drawn up my interpretation of the lighting circuit in the standard form (exluding the dim/dip circuit). I can't figure out what role the rear fog inhibitor (if it is such a relay plays).