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Re: MG Backup Lights

To: lawref@lawref.com (Ernest E. Gilbert), mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MG Backup Lights
From: "W. B. Olson" <WBOLSON@cherokee.astate.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:47:42 CST
I beg to differ!! My 67 GT has the same 3 syncro crashbox as my 
friend's 67 roadster.  He has backup lights.  I don't!!!


> Date sent:      Wed, 29 Nov 1995 06:38:26 -0800
> To:             mgs@autox.team.net
> From:           lawref@lawref.com (Ernest E. Gilbert)
> Subject:        MG Backup Lights
> Send reply to:  lawref@lawref.com (Ernest E. Gilbert)

> The transmission used in the MGA and slightly modified for the early B
> (through 67) had no switch provisions for backup lights. The first time a
> backup light switch appeared was on the new all-syncro trannie used from 68
> on. The wiring harness sold by Moss for the 67 is the same one sold for the
> 68 and the wires are there for the lights. Same for the OD harness which has
> the wires from the main loom to the trannie, but no switch on the 67 and no
> provision for it in the casting. The only switch on the early B casting is
> the 3rd/4th sensor for the OD. I really tried to use those extra wires when
> I rewired my 67 last month. My 68 does, however, have both backup switch and
> lights. 
> Ernest E. Gilbert
> lawref@lawref.com
> http://www.lawref.com/lawref/
> http://www.lawref.com/lawref/eeg/eeg.html
> 
> 

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