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DavidM
Guest
Sunday morning laning spoilt my the dodgy electrics again.
The old SIII diesel will sit with the ignition on (charge light and oil
presser lights lit), but any attempt to load the battery kills the electrics
and all dash lights go out. The electrics "recovers" back to ignition-on
state after a few seconds.
First thing Sunday morning it worked OK. I heated glow plugs for the usual
20seconds, turned the engine over twice, stoped, tried to turn the starter
again and all I got was a clicking sound from the engine bay. After that the
glow plugs and starter would not work at all, as described above the
electrics would "die" when any load such as plugs/horn/indicators etc were
swiched on.
Any advice would be very much appreciated, I'm stumped.
I thought the solonoid might be stuck and shorted, so diconnected it, With
the heavy black +ve lead connected only to the alternator and vehical main
loom (not solonoid terminal) it still displayed the electrical fault.
Also tried it with jump leads from another car, no good.
Ideas please.
DavidM
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DavidM djm81NOSPAMatcam.ac.uk
The old SIII diesel will sit with the ignition on (charge light and oil
presser lights lit), but any attempt to load the battery kills the electrics
and all dash lights go out. The electrics "recovers" back to ignition-on
state after a few seconds.
First thing Sunday morning it worked OK. I heated glow plugs for the usual
20seconds, turned the engine over twice, stoped, tried to turn the starter
again and all I got was a clicking sound from the engine bay. After that the
glow plugs and starter would not work at all, as described above the
electrics would "die" when any load such as plugs/horn/indicators etc were
swiched on.
Any advice would be very much appreciated, I'm stumped.
I thought the solonoid might be stuck and shorted, so diconnected it, With
the heavy black +ve lead connected only to the alternator and vehical main
loom (not solonoid terminal) it still displayed the electrical fault.
Also tried it with jump leads from another car, no good.
Ideas please.
DavidM
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DavidM djm81NOSPAMatcam.ac.uk