Check for a good earth.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles D. Sorkin <cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com>
To: Spridgets list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 1999 11:29
Subject: What I need is a flowchart...
> Dear List:
>
> I truly regret burdening the list once again with a ubiquitous starting
> problem with the Midget. But here goes...
>
> Key in ingition, juice comes on, enough to light the headlamps, fuel pump
> clicks a few times. Then, turning the key results in a forceful click,
but
> the starter does not turn, nor does the enigine. The headlamps do not
seem
> to dim while turning the key. That would imply no voltage drop, and that
> the clicking could represent a failing solenoid. (But wouldn't that
prevent
> current from geting to the rest of the electrical system?)
>
> When I have had the occaisonal problem of the starter failling to
disengage
> from the ring gear, I was not getting much of a clicking sound, and
rocking
> the car while in gear would cause it to disengage and start normally.
>
> Any ideas about what to check and in what order?
>
> Something about my MG experience must be charmed in some way... every time
> the Midget has displayed an anomaly like this (it never breaks down, it
just
> has anomalies) it always does so within the safe confines of its own
garage.
> What a good little car.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles
> '74 Midget
> cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com
> Bloomfield, NJ
>
>
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