Another frig to hide a problem elsewhere.
PaulH.
-----Original Message-----
From: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 13 February 1999 22:21
Subject: Re: Alternator light
>>X-POP3-Rcpt: bachldrs@ctc
>>Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:04:35 -0500 (EST)
>>From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
>>To: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>
>>cc: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>, mgs@autox.team.net
>>Subject: Re: Alternator light
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>>Allen, if the B is a 77 then the diode was probably put inline to stop
>>the car from running on after the key was removed.
>>...Art
>>
>Thanks, Art -
>
>' Seems to me I remember this happening to my first MGB - a '78. Unlike
>pre-ignition run-on, after the ignition switch was turned off, it just kept
>running normally. At that time, 15 years ago, I had little mechanical
>understanding of the car but I recall my mechanic saying something about a
>diode. Is that the same diode? The current car is a '76 - now without
>its diode (which had been spliced into the brown/yellow wire), but it does
>not run on.
>
>Allen
>
>Allen H. Bachelder =iii=<
>Sinking Creek Home for Wayward MGs
>New Castle, VA 24127
>USA
>540/544-7333
>
>
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