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Re: HELP!! - burning wire

To: JChumley3@aol.com
Subject: Re: HELP!! - burning wire
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:40:14 -0400 (EDT)
You've got a short that needs to be fixed. If you don't fix it you run the
risk of ruining your whole harness.
Harbor Freight sells a short detector for $19.99. It's the same unit 
that others sell for $30.00
...Art


On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 JChumley3@aol.com wrote:

>  am having a problem(with my 1980 MGB) with a wire that continues to burn.  It
> is one of the three white wires that connect to the inertia switch.  Since the
> fuel pump is powered by one these wires, I get stranded every time this wire
> burns(three times now, including today).
> 
> The first two times it burned, I simply cut the wires off past the burned ends
> and reconnected with good wire.  The problem is that I do not know WHY this
> wire keeps burning.
> 
> Should I run an entire new wire and be done with it?  Or do I need to worry
> about WHY this particular wire kept burning?  I don't have any experience with
> this, so any information would be most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeremy
> 


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