I need a 71 510 wiring diagram

SLOroadster · Post by **SLOroadster** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:23 am

I'm helping sort a 71 dime out for a friend, and the previous owner(s) just made a mess of the wiring harness. I can't tell where anything goes under the hood, especially on the starter side. I have wires just lying around, relays that have no wires anywhere near. Its a mess. If anyone can help, that would be much apreciated.

thanks,
Will

Post by **dbrick** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:40 am

here's a starthttp://www.dimequarterly.tierranet.com/ ... rams.shtml

JoeK · Post by **JoeK** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:16 pm

I once had a 510 that the PO had gone through the wiring. He redid the entire car in 14g RED wire. That car never ran again.

If you still need a diagram, I have the one in the Haynes manual. I can scan it at work and email it to you, in PDF. Let me know.

Import_sounds-of-mid-GA · Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:21 pm

just remember.... one wire at a time, its not a race..... heres another one: "its a marathon not a sprint"

Post by **ppeters914** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:41 pm

OTOH, my buddy and I drove down, picked up a friend's Harley, took it back to our place, rewired it completely with only RED wire.....all in under an hour.

Five years later, I heard it was still running fine on that all red wire job.

Import_sounds-of-mid-GA · Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:56 pm

its not the red wire that makes is not run.... its when it stops running and you have to figure which wire is the problem....

Post by **ppeters914** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:02 pm

Well, it's simple then....it's the RED wire!

Seriously, I agree it should be properly color-coded. At the time, that was the only wire we had and we needed to get his bike running immediately. It may have been a one-color rewire, but we did it correctly and the bike was running fine for years.

On the flip side, I sold another Harley that had a fresh rebuild and proper colored wiring. In three months, the new owner had a smokin' barely running scoot with friggin' lamp cord hanging all over it as he "improved" it.

Post by **dbrick** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:20 pm

Well, red is positive, and it is negative ground, that's why the frame is painted black, right? So all the wires should be red.

Post by **S Allen** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:12 am

So Dave-where did you get the 46 car you have for your Avatar? Pretty cool!

Steve

Post by **dbrick** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:15 am

There's a seller on Ebay, tons of them. I just borrowed (stole) the image.
http://cgi.ebay.com/CHORO-Q-DATSUN-FAIR ... dZViewItem

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