'75 Indicator Electrical Connectors

[oli8925]

I've just finished cleaning up a pair of Magnum/Chevette indicators with the sidelights included, but my car doesn't have the sidelight wiring on the loom or the right connectors.

Wiring is fine, but I don't want to chop off the connector on the loom, so I can put the original indicators on when I want to, so I'll chop the Magnum indicators instead. But for this I need to get the same type of connectors and plugs as are currently on the loom and orange indicators, and no matter where I look I can't find any for sale

Does anyone know where sells them? They're the odd one's with what looks like two male spades.

[dann01]

Just a small hint, but a normal female spade fits in that connector, so as a temp measure, they could be used.

Dan

[oli8925]

Thanks Dan, I've done that for now to swap them over. No pictures yet as I'm still waiting on the right coloured wire for the sidelights, I'm not sure it's an improvement though, nor does it make it worse. An indifferent change I think. Will need to get some new orange units though, all the studs have sheared on one side, and on the other the studs started spinning. Drilling them out didn't go too well reflectors were awful anyway.

I also guess these were Chevette rather than Magnum indicators, on account of the completely different connectors and the fact the wires weren't long enough to reach the loom.

[droopsnoot]

Those are different to mine, I guess because yours originally had the sidelights in the headlamp unit - my connectors are the two-pin Ripaults units like in other parts of the loom.

As I understand it, the main difference between Chevette and Magnum units is that Chevette ones have plastic bodies, whereas the Magnum ones are made of some kind of "metal", I'm not sure what.

[oli8925]

These had metal bodies and the two-pin connectors so I presume they were Magnum ones. Haynes diagrams show indicator/sidelights on the '75 wiring diagram, but not on '74, so perhaps mine was manufactured late 74/early 75 so didn't have that loom?

Do the wires for the indicators on your loom reach down to the hole that goes through the inner wing to the indicators? Mine stop quite a bit short and wouldn't reach the Magnum lights.

So I guess the loom changed slightly sometime in 1975?

[droopsnoot]

As I recall it, the connector is about halfway from the chassis rail to the hole, but I'll try to remember to check over the weekend as it's the kind of thing I only look at when there's a problem. It was all re-wired at one point (when you could still easily get the Ripaults connectors) but I don't recall changing any wire lengths, and I didn't do the sidelight/indicator wires. I've got some Chevette ones to go on, but haven't got around to it yet.