[Mgs] 1974 chrome bumper MGB ignition coil

[laf48 at aol.com]

Thanks for the tip Barney, but it does not apply to this car.
BTW I have seen (electronic) tachometers go bad and kill the engine about 4 times on various cars

Len



-----Original Message-----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg at mgaguru.com>
To: laf48 <laf48 at aol.com>; mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2018 10:04 pm
Subject: Re: [Mgs] 1974 chrome bumper MGB ignition coil


Later model MGB have ballasted ignition with a 1.5 ohm coil and a 1.5 ohmballast resistor.  The third wire goes to the starter solenoid, sothe starter can bypass the ballast resistor and switch full batteryvoltage onto the coil during crank starting.


At 05:03 PM 7/26/2018 -0400, laf48 at aol.com wrote:

Thanks Barney, but I have 3wires on the distributor side, one to the points, and the terminal thatgoes to the tachometer has a double wire connection, so 1 to the points,1 to the tachometer, where does the other one go to, or do they both goto the tachometer?
Len 



-----Original Message-----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg at mgaguru.com>
To: laf48 <laf48 at aol.com>; mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thu, Jul 26, 2018 04:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] 1974 chrome bumper MGB ignition coil

Two W/B wires there on one terminal, one from coil "-" todistributor, and one from coil "-" to tachometer.

See here: 
http://chicagolandmgclub.com/techtips/mgb/mgb_wd.html
http://chicagolandmgclub.com/techtips/mgb/pdf/mgb_wd16.pdf



At 03:01 PM 7/26/2018 -0400,laf48--- via Mgs wrote:

Good day Gents, on the distributor side of the coil isthe tachometer lead, and another wire on the same terminal, where doesthe second wire go to?  

Thanks

Len Fanelli

Abingdon Performance LTD.



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