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Q & A: MGB Battery Charging

Tuesday December 23rd, 2008
Q & A, MGA, MGB, MGC, MG T-Type, Midget
My '77 B (you worked on this car when I was on the
faculty at University of Michigan) was totaled this summer in
a parking lot, I replaced it with a '75 B, and I am getting to
know a new car...one quirk is that the polarity in the electrical
system is reversed (discovered when I replaced the battery), when
the alternator went out, my local guy said rewired the car to get
polarity back to normal, but when I attached my trickle charger this
winter, no go--lead me to check and the battery was still hooked up
neg-pos...pos-neg...I called the guy, he is not concerned...should I
be? (I reversed wires on charger to try to charge up...power is out right
now so don't know outcome yet...) Thanks
Your MGB is negative earth, negative ground. This is common with
all modern vehicles. Sometimes the ground cable has been replaced with a
red cable, making ground red and power black -- just opposite of what you
would exp... read more