[Mgs] Mix n Match

[Michael MacLean]

 I have only owned the car for a little over a year.  The car is a 1969 GT with a 1967 engine, no smog controls and a Weber carb.  To say the car had been messed with in it's 52 year life is probably and understatement.  This is nothing new to me since I have been around British cars since 1971 and have rebuilt and restored my share of them.  I also own two Austin Healeys also.  You always see the evidence of what past owners have done to keep the car working, improve the performance, etc.  This 1969 MGB GT is no exception.  I am sure the wiring has been modified in in form or another during it's long service.  Having said that, it still holds when something like this goes wrong with a system of the car that had been working great for a long time, it is usually something simple that is the culprit.  Given enough time and curiosity, it will reveal itself.  I'll find it and I will let the list know when I do.  Thanks again for the constructive input, it is not ignored.Mike MacLean

    On Sunday, April 17, 2022, 05:15:30 PM PDT, Robert's New iPad <mgbobh at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
     Something you don’t know, unless you have owned the car since new, if if someone has messed with the wiring.  
    If you have two wires to the flasher and do not find an orphan wire up in there somewhere, that is what you have to work with. 
    Have you established that you have 12V to one of the wires on the flasher?  Paul said that the two-pin flasher is in series with the flashing signals, so 12V on one of them when the signal switch is right or left turning is required.
    While you are doing this work, ignition will be on, so be sure to disconnect one wire to the coil.
    Have you been able to establish that there is voltage to the signal sockets? 
Bob


> On Apr 17, 2022, at 7:32 PM, Michael MacLean <springer.mike51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm confused. (nothing new) in trying to get my turn signals working I checked the wiring diagrams out for the early and late MGs.  In the wiring diagram for the early cars it shows a 3 pin flasher relay with a two fuse unit.  In the late MG wiring diagram it shows a two pin flasher unit and a four fuse unit.  Looking at my car (a 69) it has a two pin flasher unit, but the car has a two fuse block unit.  What the heck?
> Mike MacLean
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