OH yea - this is a 78 Midget. In case you don't read the sig line.
This is kinda like Allens mysterious 77 thingy on the firewall. Which the
78 does not have.
>>>>On 4/13/00 7:35 PM so and so (Larry Macy) said. (And I quote:)
>I put a solenoid in the Midget tonight. The old one was only working once
>in a while. The new one, I got from a buddy in the Philly MG Club, has
>one less post on it than the old one. There are the two posts for the
>starter circuit. As you look at it from the front, there are two posts,
>one for the starter/ignition circuit (white w/ red), and one for the
>electrics (brown). On the old one was a post in the middle that had a
>white w/ light green wire that ran to the positive side of the coil. on
>the new one that post is not there. What exactly does the W/LG wire do??
>It appears to send a positive circuit to the solenoid. I wired up the new
>one and all seems right with the world. The Haynes manual does not show
>this wire. The B/L factory shop manual does.
>
>I have no idea what this wire is supposed to do. Do you??
>
>Larry
>
>Again the car starts and all the accessories (lights, radio etc) seem to
>be working.
>
>Larry Macy
>78 Midget
>
Larry Macy
78 Midget
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Neuropsychiatry Section
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University of Pennsylvania
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