Electrical Gremlins!
Ok, let's cue up the usual British electrical system jokes: "Why do the British drink warm beer? Because Lucas makes their refrigerators!" "Who is the Prince of Darkness? Lucas!" And finally, the famous bumper sticker: "The parts falling off of this car, are of genuine British manufacture!" But I have carried this nonsense to an extreme! I mixed a 20 year old Mazda RX8 electrical system with a 60 year old Lucas system! God bless me! No wonder I experience some issues! And I allowed thoughts of this complexity to lead me down a path of wasted time and money, as we will see. This winter's issues (there is always a winter issue during the nearly 10 year shakedown process!) was a mysterious dead battery. I drove BB to work midweek and then jumped in for a last trip of the season to my Mom's house on Sunday, turned the key and nothing. No fuel pump noise, no voltage increase, no cranking. Hmmm. So I jumped into my modern car a...
