Lose spade connector at the fusebox happened to me as well.
On top of this, it may well be worth while to bite the bullet (connectors).
Most times the bullet connectors are still fine, though may suffer of broken
solder joint.
But most of all you may expect the receptacles whereing the bullet
connectors fit have lost their tight fit to the bullet connector.
During the restauration of my 71 BGT I replaced almost all of these.
The parts shop manager was surprised I bought all of his stock in one buy.
It prevented a lot oftrouble I'm sure.
Cheers,
Hans
71 BGT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Schauss, R. Peter (IT Solutions)" <peter.schauss@ngc.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] A few electrical things stopped working...77 MGB
>I had a similar problem a while back except that it was intermitent.
> Looking at the wiring diagram I determined that all of the
> non-functioning items were on one fuse. I started wiggling the spade
> connector on the fuse block and found that I had a loose rivet. One
> squeeze with a vice-grips was sufficient to solve the problem.
>
> Peter Schauss
> 1980 MGB
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:52:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tom McLaughlin <tmcl98@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Mgs] A few electrical things stopped working...77 MGB
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Message-ID: <82489.90608.qm@web65615.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
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>
> Hello all,
> Two years ago, I had my mechanic (I do about half the work on the
> car when I have time) do a bit of work on the wiring in my 77MGB. The
> lights
> were weak and a few other problems that I can't remember. He basically
> replaced a bunch of connectors and everything worked for a year or so.
>
> Late
> last year, a few things stopped working....the blinkers, the tach, the
> temp
> guage, the horn, the fuel guage. I have it out of storage for the year
> and
> would like to get these things working.
>
> With two little kids, I don't have
> time to troubleshoot this so I may bring it back to him. However, I did
> look
> in the book and it looks like there are a few in line fuses, but I can't
> seem
> to find them in the tangled mess of wires under the hood. I think they
> may
> bit in a large bundle of taped up mess that I haven't touched in the 12
> years
> I've owned the car.
>
> The question is if it is likely a fuse or a bad ground
> somewhere. If a fuse, is it an inline? The fuses in the block are
> fine. I
> seem to remember there are fusable links somewhere as well.
>
> I seem to have
> forgotten much about the wiring...more soccer games and baseball games
> on
> Saturdays than working on the car in the last 6 years.
>
> Any thoughts would be
> appreciated.
>
> Tom
> 77MGB
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