No No No Not here

Dezzy · #1 8th February 2010, 09:59 AM

So i park the 8 up Thurs evening and go out to playing with Land Rover, Sunday evening 20 mins before i'm going away to work for the week, hop into the 8 (thats been parked in front the house in everyone's way all weekend) to move it into a parking space and NOTHING well when i say nothing it does click down by the OSF wheel. I'm assuming thats where the motor is? I've read though Conan's and post oh how i'm looking forward to that one already.

Are you sure there isn't a button you press somewhere that makes the old starter motor fall onto the tarmac and then just push the new (second hand) motor under the bonnet into the engine bay and it finds it's own way into place?

The Landy has a starting handle behind the seats for this very eventuality but I can’t seem to find it in the 8, but to be fair I don’t have a full tool kit.

Ian do you have a starter motor you’ve been trying to get rid of for so long you just want someone to take away?

Mike do you want to pop round and swap the motors over? I can stand there and pass you useless tools under the car, Oh and I cook an awesome breakfast Hogs Pudding the lot.

PsYcHe · #2 8th February 2010, 02:39 PM

Dezzy... Are you sure your battery is OK? You get the click noise if the battery isn't powerful enough to turn the motor. Try it with some jump leads first.

Dezzy · #3 8th February 2010, 03:30 PM

Hello mate, I thought the same thing but i put the jumpers on and exactly the same, just a click from what i'm assuming is the solinoid on the motor. But what worries me is the car is an electrical nightmare waiting to happen and i'm crap with electrics.

I had the same bloody thing on my Cat D5B dozer only difference was i could get to it. But i took it to a company that specialise in altenators and starter motors close to me and they ended up replacing the solinoid for £75 and that was a big motor.

I was looking at one of Ian's posts about the main power cable and distribution block, please be a simple fix

Anyone know what i'd pay for a recon exchange for the 8, £10 - £15 delivered / fitted maybe?

B@fink · #4 8th February 2010, 08:19 PM

might just be stuck? find a professional spanner waver who can tap it appropriately and see if it'll free off. Pal of mine had a big jag that did something similar and a carefully aimed tap from a knowledgable bloke in the correct spot and off she went!

Dezzy · #5 8th February 2010, 08:37 PM

I'll give it a go for sure just getting to it, a friend has kindly donated me the use of a ramp Friday when i'm home so i'll have a go then. It's just if it happens again when i can't get under it.

I used to hit to dozer starter with a 3ft length of scaffold tube.

Funnly enough it stoped working all together in the end

Conan_the_Librarian · #6 9th February 2010, 05:43 PM

if it won't start make sure it aint a bad earth. get the jump leads on the starteread and engine block.

Dezzy · #7 10th February 2010, 08:23 AM

Will do, i hate electrics

Dezzy · #8 15th February 2010, 12:14 PM

Ok so i won't go into details as i wouldn't want to bore anyone. But the 8 won't fit on the trailer as it's too wide and no i didn't check first as we've had a tractor on it before i made an assumption so i couldn't use the ramp.
But it turns out to be one of the lug connectors in under the big area of green powder on the OSF. Clean up and replace connector and i will be away again.