Ben:
Your Morgan was never a 6 volt car. The British stuff has all been 12v
Positive Earth since the beginning of time. Your Mog had two 6 volt batteries
wired in series. Installing the battery with Neg earth will cause only two
problems. It will shorten the life of your voltage regulator due to its use
of different metals on the contacts which is designed to reduce metal
transfer and it will waste your transistor radio. Otherwise the everything
would function normally. The most likely cause of your hot cable is that the
battery is grounded to the frame and there is no ground strap between the
frame and the engine, which of course is sitting on rubber mounts.
I once say a Morgan in which the choke cable turned red hot while cranking.
The owner had replaced the battery, generator and starter in his attempt to
cure the slow cranking problem. A ground strap across an engine mount fixed
it for $.50.
Happy Moggin.
Don Greimel
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