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Re: Solenoids and WLG wires

To: "Larry Macy" <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>, "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Solenoids and WLG wires
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:39:37 -0400
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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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 10 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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