Has the smoke escaped out of the wires on your classic British car? This then, is the solution to your problem. Now available is the Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve.
These kits were commonly supplied to Lucas factory technicians as a trouble-shooting and repair aid for the rectification of chronic electrical problems on nearly all British cars. Now available for the highly skilled British Car Technician or the do-it-yourselfer, this kit is in-valuable in locating and repairing smoke leaks in the electrical circuit. The smoke is metered, through the fuse box, into the circuit which has released it's original smoke until the leak is located and repaired. The affected circuit is then rectified and the precise amount of genuine Lucas re-placement smoke is installed.
This kit incorporates the exceptionally rare Churchill metering valve and fuse box adapter. Unlike the cheap, far-eastern re-placement DIY smoke kits offered by the "usual suppliers", this kit includes a filter to ensure that all the smoke is of consistent size. The Taiwanese smoke usually supplied in some aftermarket kits is often “lumpy", which will cause excessive resistance in our finely engineered British harnesses and components. This is often the cause of failure in the reproduction electrical parts currently available, causing much consternation and misplaced cursing of the aftermarket parts suppliers.
This genuine factory kit contains enough smoke to recharge the entire window circuit on a 420 Jaguar or Humber Super Snipe; the full instrument panel, headlights, taillights, and the Smiths “Hooters” warning system of a generator equipped Elan; or an entire bug-eye Sprite… with or without synchromesh. Be fore-warned though, that this kit is not applicable to any British vehicle built after the discontinuation of bullet connectors. Please read the manufacturer’s list of applications carefully.
The Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit is available through any foreign car parts dealership, or your favorite Lotus Parts emporium.
A Treatise on the Importance of Smoke - by Joseph Lucas
All electrical components and wiring harnesses depend on proper circuit functioning, which is the transmission of charge ions by retention of the visible spectral manifestation known as "smoke". Smoke is the thing that makes electrical circuits work. Don't be fooled by scientists and engineers talking about excited electrons and the like. Smoke is the key to all things electrical.
We know this to be true because every time one lets the smoke out of an electrical circuit, it stops working. This can be verified repeatedly through empirical testing. For example, if one places a large copper bar across the terminals of a battery, prodigious quantities of smoke are liberated and the battery shortly ceases to function. In addition, if one observes smoke escaping from an electrical component, such as a Lucas voltage regular, it will also be observed that the component longer functions.
The logic is elementary and inescapable! The function of the wiring is to conduct the smoke from one device to another. When the wiring harness springs a leak and lets all the smoke out of the system, nothing work right afterward.
Starter motors were considered unsuitable for British motorcycles for some time largely because they regularly released large quantities of smoke from the electrical system.
It has been reported that Lucas electrical components are possibly more prone to electrical leakage that their Bosch, Japanese, or American counterparts. Experts point out that this is because Lucas is British, and that all things British leak. British engines leak oil, British shock absorber, hydraulic forks, and disc brake systems leak. Therefore, it follows that British electrical systems must leak smoke. Once again, the logic is clear and inescapable.
Sometimes you may miss the component releasing the smoke that makes your electrical system function correctly, but if you sniff around you can often find the faulty component by the undeniable and telltale smoke smell. Sometimes this is a better indicator than standard electrical tests performed with a volt-ohm meter.
In conclusion, the basic concept of transmission of electrical energy in the form of smoke provides a clear and logical explanation of the mysteries of electrical components and why they fail.
