Alfa GT Junior - Electrical Questions

[poordecisions]

Hi All,

I have a recently purchased 1600 GT Junior. Before my drive home, I found a live (!) wire earthing against the inside of the car. It looks like it's been wired with a plastic knife and fork, so might have my work cut out for me.

I have a couple of questions if there are any geeks here?

I seem to have two cables (red and black) that are not connected to anything, but trace back through the bulkhead to the passenger side. They don't seem to be live - does anyone know what these are for (without me having to take the dash apart!)? Also, if you look to the rear of the engine, one of the hex plugs between the spark plugs has a connector on it but nothing attached - any ideas?



Secondly, the live wire I disconnected was from the coil, but not plugged in to anything at the other end. You can see it to the left hand side of the coil in this photo, currently a bare male spade connector.



Thirdly, my brake lights aren't working - if there are any common reasons for this I'm all ears, otherwise the ammeter comes out...

[poordecisions]

rxe said:

Sensor next to the plug - does your temperature gauge work? On my later Alfetta, that is the water temperature sensor. Or it might be the thing that triggers the red light saying ‘Your engine is too hot”.

Edited by rxe on Tuesday 17th October 22:43

Yes the gauge seems to work, I suspected it would be water / oil temp, but the gauge sits at around 90 so I wouldn’t know if it worked either way!