Tom,
You're really wasting a LOT of time on this car. You don't need this kind
of grief.
Hey! Tell you what.... Why don't I bring a trailer, load up the car, and
just get it out of your way? Being a helpful sort of person, I'd be happy
to do it.
If you like, I'll even treat you to dinner!
Just a thought...
Carol
At 06:31 PM 8/30/97 -0400, tallen wrote:
>I think I now know what is wrong with My MGA. Either someone once died in
>it and it's haunted (in which case I could really use our much beloved
>High Priestess, Denise) or the Lucas electronics have just taken over ala
>Kit the Knightrider or Herbie the Love Bug 8-(
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>During the week I had about 2 seconds of spare time, so with no key I
>pulled the starter switch and it turned over (you may remember the battery
>just hissed before). So today, with wife and child gone for the weekend,
>I head out timidly to the garage. She fired right up! So I backed her
>out and went to work on the accessories. Fuel guage - OK, wipers - OK,
>brake lights - OK, parking lights (front) and turn signals still out. I
>found a melted red wire in the harness and replaced that, and now have
>parking lights all the way round. I hooked up the turn signals without
>the flasher and all seems well, so I thought I just needed a new flasher.
>
>At this point, I think all that I did was put the lenses back on the front
>parking lights, and put back the old flasher (and 3 wires which ground
>there - are these right?). Jumped in to put her away, and I just get the
>hiss from the battery when I pull the starter. Seriously, do I need to
>fly Denise all the way back here to perform an excorsism? Will she turn
>my car into an 1100? Is there a capicitor or something somewhere that's
>getting a charge on it which takes several days to leak out? For a while
>when I was hooking stuff up, I started the beast after each new accessory,
>but that got old and was really running down the battery, so I quit
>that and now I really don't know what's killing it. I do know this:
>school starts Wednesday, summer's over for me (not that I got to take one
>day off), and if I don't get this thing on the road pretty soon, it's
>going to the high bidder on this list, and I'm going to get a Miata and
>love it just like it's a real car!
>
>Thanks for listening,
>
>Tom, '60 MGA 1600
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