Re: + or -

["Lou Metelko" <lmtr4a@ctlnet.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "oliver" <oliver@connect.net>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: + or -


> I've been following this thread for several days now, and have to ask this
> question:
>
> I think I can summarize the reasons for making the switch:
>
> 1. installing a neg earth radio
> 2. to avoid shorting the whole car out because some dimwit won't recognize
> the car is pos ground
> 3. to install electronic ignition

Oliver & Listers:

1.  Unless you are sitting in traffic watching the temp gauge creep up, you
can't hear a radio in a side screen car so why bother.
2.  If the dimwit doesn't realize it is a positive ground car he probably
would not know how to open the hood anyway.
3.  Most folk with electronic ignitions in TRs are advised to carry a
distributor plate with points mounted just in case the electronic ignition
fails.

As for drivability, there is no difference.  Congratulations on your
TS13796LO.  The intense pain of cash expenditures will be replaced by the
joy
of ownership.  If you have to ask if my TR2 is positive ground then you have
not been paying attention.

Lou Metelko
Auburn, Indiana