Well here's a story that shows that the british may not have had bad
electrical systems, they just designed them to their natural state. Yesterday
I
was coming around a curve on my motorcycle (Suzuki GS300) and it quit running.
I looked down at the gauges and everything was glowing too brightly. I stopped
and discovered that the solitary fuse on the bike had been corroded and lost
connection. This somehow causewd the regulator to open wide and send lots o
juice through the system. This fried every light I had active at the time. So
I replaced the fuse and cranked the bike to life. Now if I got the bike over a
certain RPM (~2500) I would lose a cylinder. I thought the power surge may
have
damaged the ignition coil or something. So I went to the local auto parts
store (slowly) to get more bulbs. On the way over there, the bike began
functioning normally again! Okay so I thank divine intervention and get my
bulbs. On the way to work this morning, I noticed that the backlight on my
speedo wasn't working. I figured I blew that too and would have to replace it,
no big deal. Halfway to work the light popped on all by itself! I think I
have
been telling my bike too many stories about my MGA.....
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*Rick Guynn -MG driver wanna-be. * MGA 1600 MkII *
*RCG1597@zeus.tamu.edu * Rebuild (complete) to be finished ?? *
*Texas A&M University * *
*Keeper of the eternal octagon * *
* a.k.a. The marque symbol that * *
* refuses to die. * *
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