[Mgs] 1974 chrome bumper MGB ignition coil

[laf48 at aol.com]

Barney, 1974 Chrome bumper with the BIG rubber  overriders, a friend / customer car.
The issue was resolved when I removed the double wire terminal from the distributor side of the coil going to the tachometer.
Sorry I do not have the VIN.
Len





-----Original Message-----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg at mgaguru.com>
To: laf48 <laf48 at aol.com>; mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sat, Jul 28, 2018 5:54 pm
Subject: Re: [Mgs] 1974 chrome bumper MGB ignition coil


Len,

If it doesn't aply to your car, then you neeed to fess up and tell uswhat kind of car you  have, so we don't have to keep guessing whatyou'r taliking about.

Barney


At 07:25 AM 7/28/2018 -0400, laf48 at aol.com wrote:

Thanks for the tipBarney, but it does not apply to this car. 
BTW I have seen (electronic) tachometers go bad and kill the engine about4 times on various cars
Len



-----OriginalMessage-----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg at mgaguru.com>
To: laf48 <laf48 at aol.com>; mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2018 10:04 pm
Subject: Re: [Mgs] 1974 chrome bumper MGB ignition coil

Later model MGB have ballasted ignition with a 1.5 ohm coil and a 1.5 ohmballast resistor.  The third wire goes to the starter solenoid, sothe starter can bypass the ballast resistor and switch full batteryvoltage onto the coil during crank starting.



At 05:03 PM7/26/2018 -0400, laf48 at aol.comwrote:

Thanks Barney, but I have 3 wires on the distributor side, one to thepoints, and the terminal that goes to the tachometer has a double wireconnection, so 1 to the points, 1 to the tachometer, where does the otherone go to, or do they both go to the tachometer?

Len 




-----Original Message-----

From: Barney Gaylord<barneymg at mgaguru.com>

To: laf48 <laf48 at aol.com>;mgs<mgs at autox.team.net>

Sent: Thu, Jul 26, 2018 04:27 PM

Subject: Re: [Mgs] 1974 chrome bumper MGB ignition coil


Two W/B wires there on one terminal, one from coil "-" todistributor, and one from coil "-" to tachometer.


See here: 

http://chicagolandmgclub.com/techtips/mgb/mgb_wd.html

http://chicagolandmgclub.com/techtips/mgb/pdf/mgb_wd16.pdf




At 03:01 PM 7/26/2018 -0400, laf48--- via Mgs wrote:
Good day Gents, on the distributor side of the coil isthe tachometer lead, and another wire on the same terminal, where doesthe second wire go to?  
Thanks
Len Fanelli
Abingdon Performance LTD. 






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