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MGB Electricals Systems (The Essential Manual)

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Great book! As an electrical engineer and a person who has owned and modified MGBs since the early 1970s, I can really appreciate the accurate knowledge and advice this book contains. Most books just show the wiring diagrams and add a few explanations without any real "hands on" knowledge of MGs, just cars in general. This book is MGB specific. It explains the electrical system components in easy to understand layman's terms and carefully describes ways to improve the car's electrical system detailing the advantages of each modification. Many improvements are very quick and easy such as adding proper ground connections to lamps and converting to a single battery while others are more complicated such as converting from positive ground (earth) to negative ground (earth). The author even supports the modifications with test results (why change something if there will be no resulting improvement? Many of the changes would benefit other makes of vintage cars as well. Anyone interested in the maintaining or modifying any parts of the electrical system of their MGB should definitely purchase a copy of this book.

I have had my 65 MGB since 1985, and have done all the work done to it over the years. Now that I am dealing with a 45 year old wiring harness, I thought it was a good time to see how I can keep the old girls wiring from emitting smoke and fire.

I was really interested in how to incorporate relays into the electrical system, and this book does a great job of not only telling you how to do it, but provides several photographs to help you along.

There is even a chapter on electrical theory and how it relates to automobiles. Aside from this chapter, the book is written in plain English. There are lots of great ideas to be had in this book, and I would consider it an essential book to have along with the Bentley manual, and of course the Chilton manual.

I would recommend getting this book while it is still available, and still at a decent cost.

As the title implies, this is the essential electrical manual for any MGB enthusiast.
It is well written and illustrated with simple and concise information for the professional
and hobbyist alike. An absolute must for any owner of these dear little cars.

This book is what every MG owner should have on hand . The book is very informative and easy to understand, it tells you why and how of the Lucas Electrical system and how ro approach certian problems basicly this book helps one to get over the intimadition of working on Lucas electrics in the MG. Highly recommend

I bought this book for my brother-in-law. He is very happy with it, said it has already saved him money with the first thing he looked up. It was well packed and came on time.

The book arrived quickly and was in better shape than expected. A necessary addition to any little british car owner's library

I purchased this book because I wanted to know about upgrading my electrical system on my '66B. When I received the book I was very pleased. Although I usually read only the portions of a book I am interested in, today I finished the first 5 chapters and I am EXTREMELY pleased with this purchase!!

What I love the most - and he addresses it in the forward - is that he not only recommends certain ways of doing things, but he gives very good explanations as to WHY you should be doing them and what the root issues are. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know more about automotive electrical. I am very happy.