confooooooosed

Fitted my gearbox and transfer box today,reconnected the battery and started her up.

The problem was that all the lights came on, including the indicators, and when i turned the ignition key off the engine refused to quit. Had to crack the injector unions until it stalled.

Im certain it isn't running on its own oil it was just ticking over.

It's been stood for 6mths with the gearbox prob so it's not run for all that time.

Any advice, ideas welcomed cos as the title says im confooooooosed

Have you re-connected all yer earth straps?

It does sound earth related

sypher said:

It does sound earth related

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Same here, easy way to check...........connect a jump lead to the negative terminal on the battery and the other end to a solid part of the engine.

possibly not as i only connected the main earth strap, just to check that the g/box n t/box were workin right before i re fitted the interior etc will have anutther go tom mornin.

I had a different problem - didn't start at all when i changed my gearbox last year. However, the problem was an earth strap which attaches to the gearbox. If you haven't done it up, the strap rests on the gearbox and gives a bit of earth, but not enough. Have a look there first.

the engine should have its own earth by the starter.

check that you havnt crushed the wiring loom around the bellhousing bit of the bulkhead, its quite easy to do.

also, next time, to stop the engine, simply pull the diesel stop solenoid wire off the pump, itll stop then much easier.

theshanclan said:

I had a different problem - didn't start at all when i changed my gearbox last year. However, the problem was an earth strap which attaches to the gearbox. If you haven't done it up, the strap rests on the gearbox and gives a bit of earth, but not enough. Have a look there first.

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Thats where i bolted the main earth to so, there should have been a good earth, gonna have to go through the wiring tom

the engine should have its own earth....

Dont rely only on the gearbox one, cos the gearbox and engine may not have a clean joint between them and the starter etc.