OK, so how do you diagnose stuck points as opposed to a bad ground while
underway :-)
I've seen a number of MGs that had just recently had the fuel pump replaced
due to intermittent problems where the problem reappeared very shortly. Just
say'n.
--
Stephen West-Fisher
Coastal Data Systems
727.831.1142
http://www.coastaldatasystems.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Max Heim
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 3:03 PM
To: MG List
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Market opportunity
Hmm, I think the problem we have been discussing is generally acknowledged
as intermittent failure to actuate due to the points sticking.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 12/14/10 11:46 AM, Stephen West-Fisher at steve@coastaldatasystems.com
wrote:
> My experience with unreliable fuel pumps is actually due to a bad ground.
> Note that the ground is also shared by several rear lamps, really bizarre
> symptoms can occur when the ground goes "hot" due to the bad connection.
>
> --
> Stephen West-Fisher
> Coastal Data Systems
> 727.831.1142
> http://www.coastaldatasystems.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Max Heim
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:24 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Market opportunity
>
> Very ingenious.
>
> But what I think is funny is that my somewhat facetious suggestion has
> generated a long thread of real-world "solutions".
>
> It would seem that the real marketing opportunity would be for someone to
> provide a standard configuration fuel pump that operated reliably.
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