Recent content by dartymoor

For info for anyone else in the future - the issue was indeed a poor earth. I scratched to bare metal on the chassis and added another earth lead to the battery - now the starter is turning fine, even with ignition on, and the voltmeter in the cab is reading 12.5 instead of 10.1 as it was.

I've just removed one of the engine earths and that's made no difference (good or bad). There is a body earth (cowling) but there's no chassis earth to the battery. I think that's next. (There are two earth wires from the starter to the chassis though, which I've cleaned up) What's interesting...

Thanks for your quick and useful replies. I cleaned up the starter switch connections this afternoon - no change, and they're the only power feed to the starter. It could be an earthing issue elsewhere, certainly. But on moving the original wiring out of the way (on the low ampage side) it...

S2A, I've done a light restoration including many of the wires and the earths are generally good throughout. It's been parked up for a couple of weeks. This morning, excited to drive to work without the need for an MOT, I jumped in it and it was very slow to turn. After cranking in three bursts...