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Subject: RE: Who designed the location of...
From: "James Nazarian" <jhn3@uakron.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:49:16 -0500
If you make the change to a modern alternator, they have a post on the back
of it for the charging cable to the battery.  I find this to be a great
place to attach booster cables on both cars. 


James Nazarian
71 MGBGT V8
71 MGB Tourer

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Tab Julius
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:59 AM
To: Paul M.
Cc: Tim Holt; mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Who designed the location of...

I know it's a sports car, and my "real" car is a Saab (I think of my MG as 
my "surreal" car).  The MG is usually in the garage all winter unless 
there's a warm day with no salt on the road.  But I often have to jump it 
to get it going (or trickle charge it) as it's been unused.  God forbid 
I  had the hardtop on, because then I have to remove the friggin hard top 
to get at the battery.

What would be nice would be to jump it from inside the engine 
compartment.  Someone suggested putting the positive at the starter, but 
the damned starter is even harder to get at than the back of the 
seat.  It'd be nice to rig up cables permanently somehow so they run from 
the battery to the front compartment with some kind of terminal 
there.  From cold weather only (not even counting the times I might have 
left the lights on by accident during the summer), I invariably have to go 
through this a couple of times a year.

- Tab


At 10:46 AM 3/16/04, Paul M. wrote:
>--- Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com> wrote:
> > But who didn't live in cold-weather regions!
>
>You need a Volvo wagon!  I feel certain the MGB design
>team prioritized "everyday use in cold-weather
>regions" fairly low on the agenda!  The top takes ten
>full mintues to erect properly, the heater stinks...
>This is a sports car, dang it!
>
>=====
>Paul Misencik - 1971 MGB - www.sopwithracing.com





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