mgs
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Name this part, Smiths Ass Sensor, Odd Systems

To: mgs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Name this part, Smiths Ass Sensor, Odd Systems
From: Steve Bettencourt <steveb5815@edgenet.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:54:40 -0500
The ignition buzzer in my '76 B works! Which is a BIG surprise considering
all the crap the DPO did to the wiring.

At 11:35 AM 12/19/97 EST, MGMagnette <MGMagnette@aol.com> wrote:
> I too am the proud owner of a Smiths Ass Sensor.  If anyone wants it, I will
>gladly trade it for one of those handbrake diodes that makes the car start at
>random.  BTW. I dissassembled mine and found it to be the cheapest piece of
>crap ever to be invented.  The contacts inside are easily bent.  Also, the
>rubber straps under the seats stretch out so fast, there in never enough ass
>pressure to compress the little thing enough to make the car think anyone is
>in the seat.  That miight not be hhave been true then, but that brings me
to a
>question...
>
>   Does anybody own a vehicle with any of the following systems operating?
>        MG ZAorZB Magnette with a ManuMatic Clutchless Manual Gearbox
>         MG 1100 or Austin America with a four speed automatic, in the sump
>         MGB with ignition buzzer... disconnected but operating versions
don't
>count.
>         Pre-War MG with "Smiths Jack-All" intergral jacking?  (Who else but
>MG assume the car would break so much you needed to build in the jacks!)
>
>If you have any of these systems working, or know of any other bizzare
British
>systems of doing something harder than it has to be done (Example:  Hillman's
>with metal bbeads as switches that clump into a hunk of rust....), bring them
>up!
>
>   John
>
Steve Bettencourt
'79 MGB
'76 MGB
'89 T-10 Blazer
Steve's HotRod World Home Page
http://members.aol.com/CruzinRI
http://www.GeoCities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/4995

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>