A Healey Short
Bob McLachian
Bismarck, ND
I recently was plagued by an intermittent short on my Healey 3000 that for a long time defied diagnosis.
The short was in the primary circuit of my distributor but I couldn't figure out what was causing it. I removed the distributor and rebuilt it (it probably needed it anyway), but that still didn't solve the problem.
Eventually, I traced it back to the battery master switch in the trunk. A wire from the distributor leads back to the master switch. The switch had malfunctioned some time earlier but rather than replacing it, I had taken it out of the circuit. Had I replaced it when it initially malfunctioned I would not have spent the many hours that I did searching for the cause of the problem.
(Ed note: Moss offers the #145-770 battery master switch as the solution to this problem.)
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