Friday, October 16, 2020

Wiring diagram VE Valiant 6 cylinder Auto Wagon (not regal)

Bet you thought I had died. Haven't done a lot with the old girl for ages, and she won't run on petrol, which is a bit of problem since I moved to Queensland two and a half years back. LPG isn't that common north of central NSW, so I dropped the Val off at a local carburettor specialist. He called me about three hours later and said he won't touch my carburettor because the wiring was generally untidy and he was certain that I would blame him if anything ever failed on the wiring (which had nothing to do with the carburettor). Okay took public transport back there again. Three hours spent travelling but I didn't spend the $545 he quoted for the job he was supposed to do.

Determined to tidy the electrics myself and unemployed as a result of the pandemic, I drove home happily in the knowledge that I'd fix her up myself, then rebuild the carburettor myself.

The first issue was that the circuit diagram in the manual was not what you would call easy to follow. Observe below.


So if you have a wire that goes along the full length of the page, or worse, diagonally, following it is a nightmare. I spent about eight hours re-drawing the page using Inkscape.

The result is the same as above except that the wires aren't just labelled, they're coloured too. It makes a remarkable difference in my ability to follow a wire. It's a vector diagram, so you can make it any size you want without any loss of detail. Print on A3 if you want the detail. 

Here is the file. It's in SVG format, and you can view it with just about any vector image software or do that plus edit it with Inkscape.