Morris Minor Owners Club

Ive managed to find an old smiths 52mm Ammeter (30-0-30), which Id like to connect up on my Pickup. Question is I dont know how to connect it up. A friend commented that I should connect it up to the black regulator box at the top of the bulkhead, but which connections. The Pickup is Positive earth and still has a dynamo.

Mine is wired so 1 side comes from terminal A on the voltage regulator and the other side is wired to the starter motor side of the starter solenoid (although mine is wired backwards and shows a negative when charging )

Great thanks for that, I'll have a go at connecting it up. The gauge has already got some heavy gauge 30amp wiring with it, so should be fairly easy to connect up, now I know where they go.

Must go inline with the main feed wire from the starter solenoid - or pull switch - obviously not the main power cable from the battery - but the brown wire which joins it at the solenoid. Take great care to double - even treble - insulate the wires to the ammeter because by their nature they are unfused and can carry a very heavy current, easily enough to start a fire if they were to short against a rough edge where they pass through the bulkhead to the gauge.

Would I be right in thinking that one wire goes to the A terminal on the regulator and the other wire goes to the Heavy brown wire on the Starter solenoid. Would I have to disconnect the existing brown wire connections on both Terminal A and the solenoid, to achieve the appropiate "series connection" for the ammeter.

You effectively want to splice the ammeter into the middle of that thick brown wire (or replace it with the new wires).