MGB: Listen to what your car is telling you.

The past couple of days the stereo in my GT has started to cut out intermittently, but only for a second or so at a time. At first I thought it was a bad speaker wire grounding out, but I checked those and could find nothing. Then the next time the stereo cut out I was able to glance at it before it came back on and saw the stereo itself seemed to be without power, so I checked the power and ground wires to it but could find nothing wrong.

Coming to work this morning I finally noticed that when the stereo cut out I also got a missfire, I hadn't noticed that before because it rained just about all last week and I had my loud heater fan running so couldn't hear the engine plus it had only done it when the car was moving, this morning I was at a light and it was idling. Once I realized that the first thing I did was start to mess with the ignition key - wiggling the key reproduces the symptoms.

So - stereo cutting out = possible dying ignition switch.

I'll change it this week before it leaves me stranded.

Nice. At least it was kind enough to give you some advance warning. Well-trained beastie....

[quote=RSS]
Nice. At least it was kind enough to give you some advance warning. Well-trained beastie....[/quote]

I treat it well and buy it lots of presents, it's nice to me in return. :)

Speak to me Goose!

I have to mess with the key to get my radio to work, I have never had a misfire though. How hard is it to change the ignition switch out?
Thanks
Tom

[quote=gunna]
I have to mess with the key to get my radio to work, I have never had a misfire though. How hard is it to change the ignition switch out?
Thanks
Tom[/quote]

Not too hard. The repro stuff is shite though.

[quote=scottydawg]
[quote=gunna]
I have to mess with the key to get my radio to work, I have never had a misfire though. How hard is it to change the ignition switch out?
Thanks
Tom[/quote]

Not too hard. The repro stuff is shite though.[/quote]

I bought a switch for the 79 a little over a year ago, it seemed to be pretty good quality.

[quote="The Wiz"]
Nulla tenaci invia est via[/quote]

"Nothing tough east via email"? That's how Google Language Tools translates that. Wuzzit?

for the tenacious no road is impassable

check the tension on the alt belt, it may be slipping under a load, headlights, road lights etc. The drag can cause that symptom.

[quote=NASpecMGB]
[quote="The Wiz"]
Nulla tenaci invia est via[/quote]

"Nothing tough east via email"? That's how Google Language Tools translates that. Wuzzit?[/quote]

I stole the quote:

http://www.spykercars.nl/?pag=7

[quote=balloonfoot]
for the tenacious no road is impassable[/quote]

LOL! That's a cool quote. Google Language Tools is usually pretty good for automatic translation, but it really blew it on that one!

Mine keeps telling "get my engine rebuilt and back in me".

[quote="The Wiz"]

I stole the quote:

http://www.spykercars.nl/?pag=7[/quote]

One of my dream cars.