daviddb
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So Swmbo pulls up with a load of logs from the wood pile, goes to turn off the ignition and nothing happens. Cripes! Pulled the central wire from the dizzy and disconnected the battery; so far so good.
Popped the switch out before supper called as it was just one screw and pushing in on that pop-stud thingy but am wondering where to go next on the (Christmas Day) morrow.
The car is an lhd R4 TL type 1126 with an 845 engine first registered 26th October 1977. Needless to say the wires behind the ignition switch don't seem to conform to any diagram in Haynes book of Destructions or Revue Technique. The switch is joined to the wiring loom with a four wire clip-together block. On the switch side the four wires are Grey, Red, Brown and White. On the harness side only three of the connections are used, the 'white' one being empty. To make up for this the red has three wires in it, a thick red, a thin red and a thin white. The brown is the live-all-the time feed in. All wires seem to be untampered with as fitted at the factory although a previous owner has fitted an alternator in place of the dynamo.
I am completely 'nul' at electrickery and so have got no further than seeing that young Billy-the-fish sometimes of this parish also had a switch not switching off back in May 2011.
Any thoughts as to what next?
yours ever
David B
(blustery and damp in the Pyrenees)
Popped the switch out before supper called as it was just one screw and pushing in on that pop-stud thingy but am wondering where to go next on the (Christmas Day) morrow.
The car is an lhd R4 TL type 1126 with an 845 engine first registered 26th October 1977. Needless to say the wires behind the ignition switch don't seem to conform to any diagram in Haynes book of Destructions or Revue Technique. The switch is joined to the wiring loom with a four wire clip-together block. On the switch side the four wires are Grey, Red, Brown and White. On the harness side only three of the connections are used, the 'white' one being empty. To make up for this the red has three wires in it, a thick red, a thin red and a thin white. The brown is the live-all-the time feed in. All wires seem to be untampered with as fitted at the factory although a previous owner has fitted an alternator in place of the dynamo.
I am completely 'nul' at electrickery and so have got no further than seeing that young Billy-the-fish sometimes of this parish also had a switch not switching off back in May 2011.
Any thoughts as to what next?
yours ever
David B
(blustery and damp in the Pyrenees)
