Well, hitting the solenoid was not fixing anything.... It turns out that it
was all a coincidence, I'm pretty sure the ground cable is the problem. I
had no power, shook the groung wire and then got power....
At least that will be an easy first repair.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Steczkowski [mailto:stecz@crossroads.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 1998 1:52 PM
> To: MG Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: dead MGB...
>
>
> Well, I sent email the other day about how my MGB had died.
> At that time I
> speculated that a wire had broken or something because the car was
> electrically dead. Well, I went to go look at fixing it and
> it ran fine. So,
> I drove it to work this morning, started fine, drove it to
> work with no
> incident. I went out to go get lunch and it did the same
> thing, started to
> crank, starter engaged, started to turn and then dead. As I
> was sitting
> there, I thought that maybe the starter solenoid was causing
> the problem. I
> got the lug wrench out of the trunk and wrapped the solenoid
> and it did the
> same thing, but didn't start. I now think that it's the
> solenoid that's bad,
> unfortuneatley, that doesn't do me a bit of good as far as
> getting the car
> started.
>
> Any other ideas. I guess I start with replacing the solenoid.
>
> The really unfortuneate part is that I'm in a down hill
> parking space, so I
> can't even bump start the car....
>
> Hmm.... Hopefully it'll decide to start when I'm ready to go
> home and I can
> get it home....
>
>
> -----
> John Steczkowski
> Director of Software Engineering
> Crossroads Systems, Inc.
> 512-794-2742
> stecz@crossroads.com
>
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