Barney:
Thanks for your help. What I jokingly call common sense told me that
was the correct hookup, but I sure feel a lot better hearing your
confirmation.
A few more minor connections, etc and the beast should start. My first
rebuild, so who knows!!!
Again, thanks much.
Barney Gaylord wrote:
>
> At 03:48 PM 9/5/99 -0400, Linda Gaubert wrote:
> >.... 1960 MGA 1600 Roadster, getting ready to start the engine for the
> first time in the rolling chassis.
> >
> >Need to hook up the positive ground fuel pump, and there are no markings
> on the pump indicating which terminal is + or -. Bought the pump new, so I
> am sure it is positive ground, directions in the box have long since been
> lost.
> >
> >One terminal is on the end of the pump (plastic end), the other is on the
> side of the pump at the junction.
>
> The terminal on the end hooks to the hot wire in the harness. The terminal
> on the side gets attached to chassis ground. The pump is not polarity
> sensitive, so it makes no difference what the polairity of the chassis is.
>
> Later model MGB fuel pumps had a diode in them to surpress arcing at the
> points, and those units are polarity sensitive. They can be identified by
> a substantial bump on the plastic end cover to clear the fat diode inside.
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude
> http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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