Starter Motor

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VEGGIELANDEE

VEGGIELANDEE

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Sometims Melandee will fire up perfectly.
Then just occasionally NOTHING:confused:

No clicking no nothing have to bump start it.:mad:

2 questions
1/ Is the starter motor on it,s fkin way airt?:(
2/ does bump startin have any detrimental effect? :(
 
Disco Inferno said:
Check ya cables on the starter are tight and not corroded. My moneys on corroded as thats all discos seem to do.... especialy mine:)
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coat em in vasaline, heat some up and brush it on in a liquid, gets into all em bits.

Starter motor, check next time with a test lamp and see if you are losing the feed to the starter motor from the ignition, the small wire. It goes live when you turn the key to the start position. If ok and all other terminals look ok, and you can do this test first if you like. take a live from the battery or across the starter from the large live to the small terminal and see if it works. I often just do it with a screwdriver, but carefull what you do, sparky sparky un all that.

I have a disco 300tdi and it had that fault but it was the spider, the fokir.
 
david451 said:
coat em in vasaline, heat some up and brush it on in a liquid, gets into all em bits.

Starter motor, check next time with a test lamp and see if you are losing the feed to the starter motor from the ignition, the small wire. It goes live when you turn the key to the start position. If ok and all other terminals look ok, and you can do this test first if you like. take a live from the battery or across the starter from the large live to the small terminal and see if it works. I often just do it with a screwdriver, but carefull what you do, sparky sparky un all that.

I have a disco 300tdi and it had that fault but it was the spider, the fokir.
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Good one about the vaseline m8
Will give the sparky a go when it stops thunderin an lightenin fookin storms ragin ere
 
switch on the back of the barrel is a real common one as mentioned. put it in tight and try and start it, if it works fine then the clpis on the back of it have broken making it loose. somtimes works somtimes dont
 
RAZ8550TDI said:
switch on the back of the barrel is a real common one as mentioned. put it in tight and try and start it, if it works fine then the clpis on the back of it have broken making it loose. somtimes works somtimes dont
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Raz, sorry to change the subject here but bets on you know whats fooked up here.

Bent me track rod a few weeks ago and done in the damper as well, straightned it out and fitted a new damper and done the alignment. Damper from craddocks, think its a brittpart.

Anyway everytime I go over a bump the steering shakes like fook, going around a corner hitting a few bumps is quite scarry and it almost feels as if it is skipping.

Was going to take the damper off and try it without it, thinking that its too stiff, but competition ones must be even worse. Failing that I guess a new track rod.

Any ideas?
 
RAZ8550TDI said:
switch on the back of the barrel is a real common one as mentioned. put it in tight and try and start it, if it works fine then the clpis on the back of it have broken making it loose. somtimes works somtimes dont
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Fkin bang on the button it works finre when you PUT IT IN TIGHT OOOOHHHH.
By the way what is a clpis or was it a typo?;)
 
VEGGIELANDEE said:
Fkin bang on the button it works finre when you PUT IT IN TIGHT OOOOHHHH.
By the way what is a clpis or was it a typo?;)
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typo, "clips" but i am cure yer worked it out ;) little bugger of a fault wasnt it, only knew cause it happend to me once, just after i had finished some welding on it and put the battery back on so yer can imagine my chase :confused:
 
david451 said:
Raz, sorry to change the subject here but bets on you know whats fooked up here.

Bent me track rod a few weeks ago and done in the damper as well, straightned it out and fitted a new damper and done the alignment. Damper from craddocks, think its a brittpart.

Anyway everytime I go over a bump the steering shakes like fook, going around a corner hitting a few bumps is quite scarry and it almost feels as if it is skipping.

Was going to take the damper off and try it without it, thinking that its too stiff, but competition ones must be even worse. Failing that I guess a new track rod.

Any ideas?
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have you lost the weight off the damper by any chance??? sound like tracking might be out also.
 
RAZ8550TDI said:
typo, "clips" but i am cure yer worked it out ;) little bugger of a fault wasnt it, only knew cause it happend to me once, just after i had finished some welding on it and put the battery back on so yer can imagine my chase :confused:
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GROANNN!!!! started doin it again let me down three times today.
Off on vaction tonight that's probably why.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
RAZ8550TDI said:
have you lost the weight off the damper by any chance??? sound like tracking might be out also.
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No weight on my damper, looked as if it were the original disco one as well, got the wheel alignment done but still as bad.

If I take the damper off and it's still the same it's gona have to be a new track rod. Only strange thing is that it was ok when the track rod was bent and only started when I straightened it and fitted the new damper.

Really spoils the drive so it does.

Oh and your angle iron concept works really good, only had to use one to get out at the minute so the three is gona be brill, a good peace of mind bit of kit. Never got a chance to make up a strap for the highlift yet but got stuck and put the long bar through the wheel and it works well but it slid in after I got the waffle board in and run right down my wing on the way down. Anyway next project, just finished a tank guard so my tow bar aint a plough anymore, kept the fooker on since I need a recovery point at the rear.

Just need to get the wife convinced to come with me on the club events now, my boy is trying to get me to build a track car, but ees onto plums, little fokir wudent come with me.

However if the mad gives me a loan of ees 40 I might reconsider. he he:)
 
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