shot to the head

i knew yesterday was going to be bad first thing i got hit in the forehead with a 8" c-clamp blood all over,had a guy coming to the job to help move some steel--never shows up plus its 95 degrees out about 2pm i went home and decided to work on mg i had taken the fuel pump out (not a su) made a diagram of wires i now cant find diagram,inside the trunk there is a white wire coming off a harness (right next to the pump) a black ground wire that goes to ground, under the car there are green and black wires coming off a harness with female connecters on end------- i think the black wire goes to ground in trunk put thats all i remember also near the pump is a small hose about the size of a washer hose it seems to go to the frame anybody know what that is? thanks guys for any help i need it ----steve

I hate it when that happens. My weather station started acting goofy then quit. Checking the wires I come to find that a varmit had gotten down inside a 3" conduit going from the house to the tower and chewed the wires to pieces about 6' inside the pipe. Fine, I'll pull new ones in. Can't get a snake through, so I tie to another wire, pull the snake through, make up my new cables, then promptly pull the snake out of the wires leaving them halfway through the pipe. Finally got it after digging the 3' conduit up. Brought home the wrong connectors needed to finish.

Yesterday must have "that kind of day".

The white wire in the trunk is the pump feed.

The green/black is the fuel sending unit lead.



But, we brought home a new puppy so the day was redeemed after all.

Steven,
The small hose is the breather hose for the pump. It connects to the pump and terminates in the trunk at a tee -- I think the tee is there for the most part to keep the hose from falling through the hole. On my '69, I actually have two of these hoses. One connects to the point cap and ventilates the chamber where the points live, and the other goes to the body of the pump and ventilates the area behind the diaphragm. The are there so that the pump does not aspirate road spray and whatever other nastiness is down there as you drive....

I had a real good day on the Jettup yesterday and expect another today. I got the engine hung in her on the 4th and doing all the hook-ups now, easy twice as many as on an MGB with the extra three instruments I added and the cruise control. I may get the A/C hooked up, but that depends on what sequence I need to take with things in that area. I have to figure out the brackerty to make for the cruise transducers, one for engine speed and one for vehicle speed, I've got the magnets mounted already. A couple of steps were far from easy, but caused no real problems because I kept a cool head and just kept plugging away.

Wray, I checked with Audiovox and they said our crankshaft transducer idea will work. I'm installing the one I showed you. I actually think the rig will work without the blue wire doing anything, but, of course, they can't say that for liability reasons.

the white wire is most likely for your fuel pump (i don't know what year car you have but the later ones were in the trunk)

The green wire would be for the fuel sending guage. the black you can stick anywhere for a good ground.