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MG MGA - Never let your kid near your MGA

My now 22 year old son has done some nice work on our A so when it was time to install our new directional indicator switch I thought I was safe...nope.

no lights, no horn and the engine shuts of if I use the directionals. Time to get out the wiring diagram and determine what he messed up.

Kid

Russell
R Egge

Russell,

Barney's website has all you need to know.
Read the "notes" first as it has details on the most common error.
Also Barney's circuit diagrams are easier to follow than the Manual.

Switch notes: http://www.mgaguru.com/mgtech/electric/et106.htm

1600 http://www.mgaguru.com/mgtech/electric/circ_f3.htm

1500 http://www.mgaguru.com/mgtech/electric/circ_f2.htm



Mick
M F Anderson

yer, but do the indicators work?
DJ Lake

Russell, sounds like the live is earthed. Did your son take a color blindness test? I am colour blind (note the English colour and not the American color variety!!) and always get my wife to check my colours before adding a battery to the equation!!

I had better watch not to end up with the situation mentioned elwehere in the forum!!

Neil
Neil Purves

This thread was discussed between 16/08/2009 and 17/08/2009

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