Auto electrics web site

[Mike K]

Relating mainly to UK auto brands , this site has much everyday practical advice for the home fixer of many types of older auto electrics. I found it highly informative.

http://www.bayourovers.com/lucas.html

Mike

[Keith Webb]

Finally, here are some good tricks to play on people wielding a soldering iron on their car.

1. Blow up a paper bag and stand behind them. Burst the bag whenever you see them cutting a wire or poking at something electrical with a screwdriver.

2. Try swapping solder for tinned copper wire. It's better than watching paint dry. (The other version involves merely turning off the soldering iron!)

3. Offer to hold wires while they solder than swap one wire for a cut off length of about 4" long and then wait for sparks to fly when they realize they have just connected a wire that goes nowhere.

The last one is funniest.

[Phil Waterman]

When all other test of the ignition system you fail ask some unsuspecting person to hold the coil wire while you crank the engine. This is a sure fire test of Lucas electrical parts. If the person jumps you have successfully replaced all Lucas parts if nothing happens then you've missed one.

My older brother had and Austen Healy when I was a kid. Guess who the unsuspecting dupe was?