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cant you just get a few freind to give you a push and bump start it????

if by my friend you mean my missus then yeah lol

I cant see her wanting to push me in the car though.

I might just ask the dude who owns the garage next to me for his battery.

cheers anyway whelan

This little fooker was a git....




Sore hands, a lot of shouting and abusing and 4 Hours later....







Gunna take it apart and give it a clean, and test it.

Hopefully I wont need to replace it

Joe i am off today (sunday) give us a call and i have loads of batts in my garage plus if you need i can bump your motor using Donna's car.

(dont replie here though as i still havnt got the net at home)

Took it apart, and everything mechanical seemed fine, all working, nothing sticking.

Gave it a clean and fitted it back in and still nothing happened.

So I'm thinkin its an electrical fault with the solenoid.

Going to see if I can get it repaired or replaced

If your taking it for a swop / reconditioned one,
ask them to test yours first?

Then you know its not your wiring

will do

I took the starter motor to the auto electrical place on green lane.

He tested it, it worked fine, took it apart cleaned the brushes, put it back togetehr and tested it again and all was spot on and he didnt even charge me for it - Would recommend him

So I put it back in, and checked the earthing to the engine.
Spotted one which looked like it was tightened but it was actually loose, only by a bit though.


So I got to this stage early Saturday afternoon:

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As you can hear by the 2nd attempt of starting, the battery was dying, so I phoned Mark to help give it as jump start.

After spending about an hour pissing around, we couldnt smell any fuel, so we thought that the fuel pump was fooked. Then I realised, I took the fuse out to de-pressurise the fuel lines before taking it apart

Then we were getting somewhere...

Now that fuels getting to it, its desparately trying to start, but wont

It sounds like theres a knock from the engine sometimes and turning the crank by hand is easy in places, but becomes very difficult to turn in others.

So we came to the conclusion that the timing is out, but I'm pretty certain its spot on.

Anyone help me? as I'm at a loss now and have no idea what to do

Tony...now that you're online..

you think chris may be able to help me? PM me his number plz mate

sending number now matey he will be in bed now though but is off for the next 2days me thinks

Anyone free Tuesday around 6:30pm to give my car a tow around the block to get it started?

Have you got RAC or AA Home Start by any chance? I had a tow start off them, they may be able to help?

Also, I dunno, but when I got the tow start, and I lifted the clutch it kinda pulled back on the van once or twice before it would start.

Id offer to do it in me new car (tis derv), but am not sure I like the idea of putting strain on it just yet lol, especially as the van the RAC used for me was a 2.5 tranny lol, if that gets strain id imagine a 2.0 would be hit a fair bit?

If ye still aint sorted nothin a couple of weeks id be happy to give it a go, but atm im just in two minds about doing it. Summit in me mind I could just imagine me nice new car ending up fooked, im weird like that, dunno why!

You know anyone with a work van who could do it? Nobody cares about screwing their work van lol.

yeah, one of the lads in work might be able to do it 2moro night, if not, might be able to get one of the work vans later in the week.

I hoping it'll start tomorrow, still gotta syphon my fuel off though

Keep me fingers crossed for ye matey, cant wait to see this at a meet again, has been too long! Keep us posted, if nothing happened in a couple of weeks ill give it a go.

If you can get it started, you lookin to the Jan or Feb 08 meet for it to make its grand return?

Yeah, I'm hoping to have it done by the new year if it starts, still a lot of work to do which I didnt want to start on til I got the engine running