seems to be pretty widespread.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
To: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: Alternator light
>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
>>>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
>>
>>
>>
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