Something screwy w/ your car, I don't have any lights (headlights, side
markers, tail lights or turn) on my car right now and it runs fine. The
only thing I did was create separate grounds for the 4 corners of the car
and 1 for the pump using nutcerts. When I was re-wiring the harness to get
all those damn grounds out, I believe the fuel pump was run off the power
for the tail lights. If you got some time, i'd tear open that wiring
harness and re-wire it. I cut the size of mine in half, by making separate
grounds for each light.
Mike
At 01:21 PM 9/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>I do know about the ground with the rear lights. I made a point of
>attaching this to the grounding point before starting the car. What caught
>me off guard was that, even with the ground wires firmly attached to the
>grounding point, the car still wouldn't run with the tail lights removed.
>Only when I loosely installed them and connected the three wires (red,
>green and green/purple, I recall) did the car start.
>
>This tells me that there is something in the electrical circuit, other than
>the ground (black) wires, that is needed for the fuel pump to work.
>
>Regards,
>Scott
>----------
>> From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
>> To: Rick Morrison <gofastmg@juno.com>
>> Cc: bmc@aa.net; mgs@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: It's the tail lights... Doh!
>> Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 1:36 PM
>>
>> Rick Morrison wrote:
>> >
>> > Scott,
>> > I had a similar situation with a car with the lisence bracket removed.
>> > The pump wouldn't work until the bracket was attached.
>> > I finally traced it back to an after market fuel pump, which was not
>> > internally grounded, and the DPO had run the ground wire up to the
>ground
>> > for the liscence plate lamps.
>> > Why he used 4 feet of wire and went toall that trouble, I'll never
>> > understand.
>> > Oh, I grounded the little sucker to the pump mounting bracket. end of
>> > problem
>>
>> All years of MGB, as far as I can tell, were built with the pump grounded
>in the
>> boot with the rear lights.
>>
>> PaulH.
>>
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