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Re: MMMs are Negative Earth

To: "Mike Hughes" <hughes.c.m@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: MMMs are Negative Earth
From: "Brian J Rainbow" <brian@brianjrainbow.free-online.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:49:10 -0000
Cc: <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
References: <20021031041955.UCVO18254.virile02.aics.ne.jp@[157.205.238.72]> <003101c280b9$5bd22900$8b1e78d5@default> <3DC1608A.E415AAB2@earthlink.net> <005201c2810d$5c26cd80$4400a8c0@computer>
Reply-to: "Brian J Rainbow" <brian@brianjrainbow.free-online.co.uk>
Sender: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net
Mike,
          the P Types, N Types, TA/B/C/D/F were all positive earth, as were
the MGA's...Early MGB's were also positive earth until 1968(?) when they
switched from a dynamo to an alternator and converted to negative earth...
Don't believe these guys when they say all MMM are negative earth....  Mind
you quite a lot of MMM cars have been converted to negative earth so that
they can run an alternator driven off the back axle. and just have a dummy
dymamo with thicker shaft to take the drive from crankshaft to camshaft.....
This will no doubt upset the purists, but have a nose under the rear of a
few well presented MMM cars next time you are at a large gathering!! It sure
makes them a lot more usable, especially at night with decent halogen
headlamp bulbs and uprated rear lamp bulbs, better to be safe than sorry...

Best wishes, Brian Rainbow   PA0777 and TA2551
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Hughes <hughes.c.m@worldnet.att.net>
To: <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: MMMs are Negative Earth


> Thanks for all the responses.  My L-1 wiring diagram is almost unreadable
as
> it is a copy of a copy of a copy....  Does this mean that my TA is
Negative
> earth also?
>
>  I will have to come up with a new motto.  I keep on telling all my
friends
> who have newer M.G.s with alternators or who have changed their older cars
> over to negative ground that "Positive Earth is a state of mind!"
>
> - Mike Hughes  -t?t-
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