This is kind of off topic, but there are links to some other interesting
stuff.

The Haynes manual page is good for chuckles too.

Enjoy!

http://www.mez.co.uk/lucas.html

C. Smith
I don't see anything funny...except maybe the stuff about the Land
Rover...
I owned three TR3s in my day, and my friends owned MGAs and an Austin
Healey Sprite. Have no idea what that web page is talking about! <G
Harley

I had a Sprite too. The same part would keep failing over and over.
I had a cast iron rear brake cylinder fail! Who ever heard of
that happening? I suspect the problem was quality control
on the British material.
Paul Lamar


Paul, I had an MG midget, nice litle car, a sprite with a chrome
strip on
the side. I was in a 24 hour rally with it in 1972 and came up on a
TR3 in
the middle of the road at night. We stopped to offer headlights while he
cut
wireing out of the tail lights to rewire his ingntion which quit
with the
total loss of his under dash wireing harness. He declined and passed
me 2
hours later while I was changing the condensor in the distributor on the
MG.I also rode my Royal Enfield interceptor into a creek one night when
the
headlight wireing came apart at 90 mph on a country road in WVa. The
Lucs
CD ignition on that bike has never been a problem almost making up
for the
myrad of electrical failures of every description on the 1968
Enfield with
the Lucas magneto the princess of darkness. Put me down as enjoying the
land
rover post.

george grimes


I had a '54 MG TF in the early 60's and everything went wrong with it.
The shocks failed the brakes failed, the voltage regulator failed,
the arm fell of the distributor rotor, the engine swallowed a valve
and it caught fire once. And, that was all in the first year I owned it.
Was a neat looking car though. The girls liked it.

Vince Homer

You guys may have had this or that, but at this very moment, I am slowly
getting my rotary airplane engine installed in a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine.
All thats left before engine start is to install the fuel pump and fuel
lines, fit the top radiator hose and heater hoses, and do all the
electrical work.

I will have to contend with Lucas lights, horn, wipers, heater fan,
etc., but everything needed to run the engine will be my own custom
wiring harness.

One thing I found when I removed the old instruments was that the ground
for the light on each instrument was a separate wire daisy chained to
the next light, and finally a wire to ground. A loose connection
anywhere along the path would make multiple lights fail. Poor
workmanship may have lead to as many problems as poor design and poor
quality parts.

The last Sunbeam I owned left me sitting along the side of I-40 when
the engine stopped running. I forget what the problem was as it was
about 25 years ago. I'm pretty sure it was electrical. I've always
liked the look of the car though.

Bob W.


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Wow. I just have to comment here. Recently had to trouble shoot the
latest
failure of a
Brush/Dynamotive Chassis Dyno. There was something on a fused power buss
that failed and was
blowing the fuse. The daisy chain wiring path had me using short words.
These machines are
definitely UK spec. Finally found the failed data switch at the end
of the
wire so to speak.
C. Smith



"Lucas"
is a legal swear word world over. I had a Lucas Battery disconnect
switch
disassemble itself in a race.
The crimp around the base was not fully formed and the guts fell out
because of the moon phase/ humidity/distance from the Sun/ time of
day/name of
race track/ color of race car, milk price support number..

The Western Gear corp in Utah was bought out by J.I. Lucas years ago.
Western makes Flap drives, elevator trim ball screws, for Boeing, and
transmission gears for helicopter transmissions for many makes of
helicopters.
The annual pony show was coming to our government operation and it
was to
be the last for the old fellow who had done this for many years. He
had his
13 year old (looking) English replacement with him to learn the
ropes. At
the end of the show, I presented the old Mormon with 5 of the Lucas
bumper
stickers. He was delighted, as the whole plant had been researching
Lucas,
the new owners. The Englishman had not been aware of the Lucas
reputation.
He was livid.

A week later the plant managers secretary called me to find out
where she
could buy large quantities of those awful stickers.

The two most feared words in aviation:

Lucas Aerospace.

Lynn E. Hanover


george grimes  i had fun with no lights on hd motorcycle in wv in
night also cost two front teeth loved my 60 mg but points were a
regular changewhere in wv were you keith menard