mgs
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Alternator light

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Alternator light
From: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 17:24:37 -0400
>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
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>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



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>