Obviously it's possessed by a demon cohort of the Prince of Darkness, and he
needs to perform an exorcism...
Less frivolously, this points out an interesting design feature (?) of the
MGB -- the headlight circuit isn't fused (at least it isn't on my 66, and it
seems to be true in this case). So this short should be considered a serious
problem.
on 2/8/02 5:46 AM, Scott Allen at scottinarl@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My room mate is tearing up the roads of Northern Virginia in my 74 1/2 BGT
> while I'm off in a far off land, and he reports this problem which I'll
> admit is strange...
>
> Yesterday on the way to work he noticed that the passenger side headlight
> was on.
>
> The light switch was off.
>
> He put the light switch on, (car running) passenger side headlight stayed
> on, driver side did not come on.
>
> He turned the car off. Passenger side headlight stayed on.
>
> So as not to drain the battery, (he thought) he pulled the fuses. The
> headlight stayed on.
>
> So of course he pulled the ground on the battery and it went out.
>
> Like the subject says: how odd.
>
> Anyone else have this happen to them?
>
> My inclination is to have him start checking out the switch for a short and
> work back to the headight wiring, but I thought I'd draw from the deep well
> of knowledge here before giving him his marching orders.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Scott Allen
>
> 74 1/2 BGT
> 52 TD
>
>
>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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