>With the car off, should there be juice at this connection bolt?
All the brown wires are hot *all* the time.
The following chart is complements of Bob Howard.
Larry Hoy (MGB.Roadster@juno.com)
Denver, CO USA
1969 MGB Roadster
1987 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas
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Here's the Lucas system of colors
Black B Earth, ground
Brown N Unfused--always a hot wire
Purple P Fused but always hot
White W Unfused-hot when ignition is on
Green G Fused- hot when ignition is on
Blue U Headlamp supply-not fused
Red R Parking & Tail lights, not fused but can and should
be for safety
Yellow Some OD circuits
There is a tracer code too
Red-white RW Park, tail as above. W tracer leads to panel
lights
White-black WB W is ignition, unfused. B is coil-distrib
connection
Blue-Red UR U is headlights, R is for low beams
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:23:24 EST MGMagnette <MGMagnette@aol.com> writes:
>A while back I posted a note about a car dieing and I have finally had a
>chance to take a look at it... The posts narrow the problem down to the
spot
>where the power hits the starter, and the ground to the body off the
>battery.
> The ground to the body off the battery appears clean, and test as if
ti
>worked with the light. The bolt on the back fo the starter is filthy,
soaking
>wet, and uncovered. With the car off, should there be juice at this
>connection bolt? I found no power there with the car off.
>
> John
>
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