Quick Frame Question

On the very end of the frame loop to which the seat is fix, on my frame is a hole. The is at the rearmost part of the frame, at about a 75 deg angle up. Into this a screw was put into the rear tail lamp fairing.



Question is, does this hole belong here? I don't think so.

Also, did the wiring come out of the factory wrapped like this?

rwalker28 said:

Question is, does this hole belong here?

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No.

rwalker28 said:

Also, did the wiring come out of the factory wrapped like this?

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If you mean was it coiled around the tube as it is then, no.

You don't say what model of Commando, but if you mean was the wiring plastic-tape-wrapped like this, from the factory, then the answer is yes. And no.
That looks identical to an 850 Mk1 Commando taillight wiring here.
(the no bit is because some parts of the harness are not tape wrapped, it is plastic sleeved).

You see all these wiring harnesses being sold as 'original cloth wrapped'.
But original to what ???
Some years did have them, it seems, and maybe early Commandos ?

Ahh ambiguous questions.

1) My wire wrap question was intended to ask if the vinyl tape wrapping the entire wiring harness together was correct - i have a 1974 commando. My entire harness is wrapped like this. At one point it is breeched, the smoke got out. Healey owners say the wiring harness is built that way to protect the valuable two fuses in the Healey, 35 and 50 amp, from damage in the event of an overload... the wiring harness just fries.

2) LAB brings to mind another question, any one have photos of how the wiring was originally routed?

Thank you for the answers.

rwalker28 said:

My wire wrap question was intended to ask if the vinyl tape wrapping the entire wiring harness together was correct - i have a 1974 commando. My entire harness is wrapped like this.

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There's a photo in my 'Norton Twin Restoration' book that shows a similarly tape-wrapped 850 rear harness.