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MG MGB Technical - Front Inter repeater

My front inter repeater is not working. I have tried the green wire but it doesnt fit.
Any help would be no good.

John
John

Did you connect the green wire to the green securing screw? If so, you obviously have a polarity multiplication issue which can only be solved by swapping to the silver screw, and placing the green screw in a negative impedence canister until it is neutralized. Then refit the green screw in the auxillary recepticle as a standby for use during high-altitude drives.
Steve Simmons


Steve,

If that's the case, how would you solve the night time driving issue?
Paul Hanley

By charging the silver screw with active ions from the blue wire. But never let the green and blue wire touch the yellow wire or they will both turn green (yellow + blue = green) in which case you will have a massive feedback loop caused by three green wires. If this happens, the green screw can become hypercharged with coligulated energy and spontaneously disengage at retroactive speeds in an active linear plane. As we all know this can be dangerous!
Steve Simmons

I have it on good authority that the car is a right hand drive located in the southern hemisphere. Shouldn't the green screw be grounding the magnetic flux reversal oscillator, so that the polarity multiplication caused by the proximity to the southern pole will not blow the headlights, as Paul pointed out?
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jegawatt

I stand corrected. Please modify my advise accordingly.
Steve Simmons

I've never read a more moronic thread. Why are you guys messing with this fellow. He obviously needs help with a real problem and you're leading him the wrong way. Not to blow my own horn, which is what would happen if you place the green screw in a negative impedence canister until it is neutralized, but I have 24 years experience with this very problem. The key to the entire problem is the ignition. Even the youngest English lad can explain this failing of all Lucas electrical systems. The green wire is the primary ground for the ground fault interupter. The element that the connecting screw is made from is irrelevent as long as it is a non metallic ferrous material. I recommend perturbmium, but as I said, any non metallic ferrous material will do. The important thing is that it is a left hand screw. This is assuming that the previous poster's assertion that this is a right hand car is true. If it is a left hand car the screw must be of a neutral thread. This is the main reason that MG's are no longer available in the US as the DOT has forbidden the use of neutraly threaded screws in electrical systems. Apparently the frustration involved with inserting neutraly threaded screws leads to the chafing of wires and then all the smoke leaks out. Now to get to the point, and the obviously correct answer to the original question. If the green wire doesn't fit, then force it. If it breaks it probably needed fixing anyway. I hope my help was not as good as any. SAFETY FAST!
R Donovan

Oh my, I thought he was talking about a Triumph!

R, Isn't a neutraly threaded screw a nail? :}
Steve Simmons

Never force anything on a Triumph. It will always break and you'll eventually end up fixing the entire car which would completely ruin the resell value. Some non technical people might call a neutrally threaded screw a nail, some might call it a rivet, but the tiered slot on the head will always give it away as a screwed screw.
R Donovan

This thread was discussed between 22/09/2004 and 23/09/2004

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