Paul,
I do know about the ground with the rear lights. I made a point of
attaching this to the grounding point before starting the car. What caught
me off guard was that, even with the ground wires firmly attached to the
grounding point, the car still wouldn't run with the tail lights removed.
Only when I loosely installed them and connected the three wires (red,
green and green/purple, I recall) did the car start.
This tells me that there is something in the electrical circuit, other than
the ground (black) wires, that is needed for the fuel pump to work.
Regards,
Scott
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> From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
> To: Rick Morrison <gofastmg@juno.com>
> Cc: bmc@aa.net; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: It's the tail lights... Doh!
> Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 1:36 PM
>
> Rick Morrison wrote:
> >
> > Scott,
> > I had a similar situation with a car with the lisence bracket removed.
> > The pump wouldn't work until the bracket was attached.
> > I finally traced it back to an after market fuel pump, which was not
> > internally grounded, and the DPO had run the ground wire up to the
ground
> > for the liscence plate lamps.
> > Why he used 4 feet of wire and went toall that trouble, I'll never
> > understand.
> > Oh, I grounded the little sucker to the pump mounting bracket. end of
> > problem
>
> All years of MGB, as far as I can tell, were built with the pump grounded
in the
> boot with the rear lights.
>
> PaulH.
>
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