Lucas

[81dmc]

Any lucas electrical jokes?

[81dmc]

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I found one.

[DMC-81]

:hysterical:

[SamHill]

Stealing that. Anybody ever make a Lucas Prince of Darkness Logo? I'd proudly wear that T shirt

[AugustneverEnds]

Q: Why do the British drink their beer warm?

A: Because Lucas made the refrigerators.

[AugustneverEnds]

Loose Unsoldered Corroded Ancient Sh*t

[Mark D]

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I found one.

This is so great!

We had a new intern start at work the other day and I was explaining to her how all electronic devices run on magic blue smoke. If you hook up something wrong and let out the magic blue smoke then the device will no longer work.

It took her a second, but she got it....:D

[David T]

Lucas company motto, Get home before dark
Lucas didn't invent the short circuit but they did perfect it
Thee position Lucas switch: Off, Flicker and Dim
Luca: Prince of Darkness

I am sure if you troll the Internet you will find a whole trove of them. All British cars suffer from Lucas. Not so much the newer ones.

[MML]

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

http://www.mossmotoring.com/prince-darkness-joseph-lucas/

[MML]

Stealing that. Anybody ever make a Lucas Prince of Darkness Logo? I'd proudly wear that T shirt

Here you go

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Joseph-Lucas-Prince-of-Darkness-100-cotton-T-Shirt-Med-XXL-/300498931094?var=&hash=item45f721cd96

[Jonathan]

Not specifically Lucas, but saw a guy wearing this shirt at British Car Day a few years back.

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[DMCVegas]

I can't find it right now, but there was a "British Car Owner/Lucas Electrical test" with a front facing picture of a guy in a convertible MGB or something, with the instruction to study the picture. If your eyes first darted over to the Temperature Gauge, and then the Voltmeter second, you passed the test as a genuine British Car Owner familiar with Lucas electrics.

As a quick aside, I don't think one can truly appreciate wrenching on a car until you've taken at least one British classic into your garage to work on. Anytime I hear someone complain about how cars used to be easier to work on because they didn't have computers and were somehow LESS complicated, I know that they've never dealt with Lucas, let alone old British cars.

Which gauge problem would you rather troubleshoot?
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[Jonathan]

With the messy wiring in mind... I used to get a kick out of how people mentioned with such reverence how well built Italian cars were. Ferrari or Lamborghini, hand built, best in the world.

I worked in Sicily for a while years ago and have other ideas. We were putting in a high purity water plant at a microchip maker in Catania. Ignoring for a minute how we used to find the operators asleep on the keyboard in front of the control panel, the best part was seeing the excellence in all the field wiring that terminated in our panels. And you want me to trouble shoot why WHICH instrument isn't working???

Congrats fellas. Tutta posto!

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[dn010]

Stumbled upon this:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~mtmorris/index3.html

[Farrar]

Loose
Unsoldered
Crimps
And
Splices

[81dmc]

Loose
Unsoldered
Crimps
And
Splices

Yup, sounds like our cars...

[Timebender]

That explains why my fuel gauge has a mind of it's own. With a new sender, and the gauge is not on the same ground as the pump, sometimes it shows half a tank when full, empty at half a tank, and other times past full on a full tank, then when I know I've gone enough for at least using half a tank, it goes to 3/4, then suddenly hits empty.
Driving my car is quite the adventure