Toonarf
Active Member
Hi Every one
I got a new battery for Boanerges today and after cleaning the terminals and gingerly applying voltage to the electrics for the first time in at least 10 years I turned the key to see what happened......... not a lot, I got an oil light and a charging light. Now I expected a yellow "cold start" light whilst twisting the key further and finally a crank. But I got neither doh!!!! so before breaking the meter out I did a visual inspection and found the starter solenoid wire off at the starter. I re fitted that wire and turned the key to confirm starter action which I did indeed have. More amazingly I got a bit of white smoke out of the exhaust and a quickening of the starter as he started to fire. So I quickly added the smoke hose ( I have form for setting the fire alarm off with engine smoke) Turned the key again and after about 4 revolutions I was rewarded with him running, not smoothly to start with but soon much better ..........
All this begs the question how the hell did it start so good after at least 10 years with apparently no heat?, its been Baltic in the workshop today and I expected to struggle to start even using a good 30 seconds of heat.
David
I got a new battery for Boanerges today and after cleaning the terminals and gingerly applying voltage to the electrics for the first time in at least 10 years I turned the key to see what happened......... not a lot, I got an oil light and a charging light. Now I expected a yellow "cold start" light whilst twisting the key further and finally a crank. But I got neither doh!!!! so before breaking the meter out I did a visual inspection and found the starter solenoid wire off at the starter. I re fitted that wire and turned the key to confirm starter action which I did indeed have. More amazingly I got a bit of white smoke out of the exhaust and a quickening of the starter as he started to fire. So I quickly added the smoke hose ( I have form for setting the fire alarm off with engine smoke) Turned the key again and after about 4 revolutions I was rewarded with him running, not smoothly to start with but soon much better ..........
All this begs the question how the hell did it start so good after at least 10 years with apparently no heat?, its been Baltic in the workshop today and I expected to struggle to start even using a good 30 seconds of heat.
David
