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1. Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 21:36:42 +0000; Merry Christmas All, Just a short question. I am ready to install a battery in my TR3 project and am wondering if I should go neg. or pos. ground. The only need possibly for negative ground is jumpin; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg00975.html (7,424 bytes)
2. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:43:22 -0500 (EST); The only real reason to switch to negative ground is to accommodate negative ground electronic equipment (radio, CB, or whatever). Jump starting a positive ground car from a negative ground car (or; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg00978.html (7,956 bytes)
3. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 11:09:12 -0400; If you install your battery with negative ground you will have to rewire most of your instruments first. There is nothing wrong with positive ground. When jump is needed match battery posts + to +, a; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg00982.html (7,947 bytes)
4. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 11:19:34 +0500 (EST); Don, basically I agree with you, but for two points: 1. Most of the time, it seems best to do the final connection on the car to be started to a suitable ground on the car, away from the battery. Whe; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg00986.html (9,051 bytes)
5. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:08:13 PST; err, no, you would be in effect grounding the positive lead on the negative ground car even though the cars are not touching you are still attaching a lower potential to the positive side of the othe; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg00996.html (8,555 bytes)
6. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:15:09 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"; The only instrument that I know of that would need to change is the ammeter. The fuel gauge will run in either polarity and the rest of the gauges are not electrical. Another reason for converting to; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01000.html (9,355 bytes)
7. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:49:05 -0800; Bearing in mind that all tyodays cars have plastic bumpers anyway...... Incidentally,I have been told that the spark generated when hoking up the last connection can severely shorten the life of your; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01001.html (10,374 bytes)
8. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:40:01 -0800; Positive ground limits you to installing just about nothing electrical to your auto. Stereos, C-phones, or what else you might want to install at any latter date. There just might be the time that yo; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01016.html (9,304 bytes)
9. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:43:37 -0800; I can tell you have never converted a car to -ground --; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01017.html (8,878 bytes)
10. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 23:06:08 EST; Mark: If you do this, the wipers will park 180 degrees from where they are supposed to. When converting from positive to negative ground, nothing needs to be done to the wiper motor. When you change; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01025.html (9,457 bytes)
11. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 22:41:51 -0800; Do not know, but I do know that I have had to do this step on more then one occasion. It worked for me. I would like to know why, because it surprised the hell out of me the first time that I had to; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01028.html (10,240 bytes)
12. RE: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 03:42:11 -0500; Carl; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01031.html (7,696 bytes)
13. Re: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 10:33:24 GMT; This surprises me. Does the TR3 wiper motor have permanent magnet stators? Wiper motors are usually NOT polarity sensitive since they DON'T have permanent magnets. Make this a compulsory step 5 since; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01032.html (8,880 bytes)
14. RE: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 09:14:40 -0500 (EST); "Ouch" in what sense? Do you expect to get a shock? You won't. Go grab both battery posts at the same time. You won't feel a thing. Ot do you expect to expect your body to create a negative to posit; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01036.html (8,167 bytes)
15. RE: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 09:39:11 -0500; The only instrument on a TR3 that you would need to touch is the ammeter; all you do is swap the leads. The other instruments are not polarity sensitive. However, you do need to do a couple of other; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01037.html (8,150 bytes)
16. RE: Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 09:51:40 -0500; rotate stopping the Agree with the above, except the following: You don't need to touch the wiper motor. You do need to swap the low tension coile leads--and you do need to re-polarize the generator; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01038.html (7,836 bytes)
17. Jump Starting TR3 (score: 1): Author: Unknown; Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 06:12:33 -0500; In the digest for 19 December, Mike Thompson asked whether it was possible to jump start, when one car had positive earth and the other had negative earth. The answer is yes. There is a simple check; /html/triumphs/1997-12/msg01080.html (8,188 bytes)

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