Frank
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I need a quick favour, can one of you check your Starter Relay (Aux Fusebox in engine bay and this relay is the second from the left when viewed from the front) and let me know how long your 'witness marks' are on your relay spade connectors?
The relay spade connectors are 11mm long and my marks (2 parallel scratches near the centre) are 4mm long. The other thing I need to know is how those green relay sockets are removed and how you get the female connectors in them, er, out, in order to squeeze them, etc?
Thanks.
Edit - you can probably guess why I need to know this. As some of you know, I've had an intermittent 'No crank, no start' problem for a while. Everything tests OK, you fiddle about, change a relay or whatever and it fixes it for 6 months until the next time.
Well, the other day it wasn't intermittent, so this is my best chance to finally fix this for good. Starter works instantly with a remote starter on tab of S post and Batt + ve. No resistance from tab of S post to Relay terminal 5 on relay holder. Starter relays (yep, I have more than one these days) test fine with no resistance on spades 5 and 3 (load side) with 12v put across spades 1 and 2 (switch/coil side). A voltage drop test between terminal 3 on relay holder (the load 'in' side) and Batt + ve shows no voltage drop at all.
Relay out, ignition on, handbrake off and a jumper wire (thick wire with a spade on it, plugged into terminal 3 of relay holder) touched onto terminal 5 (load out side to solenoid S post connector) of relay holder and the car starts instantly.
One thing is certain, I will have this one.
The relay spade connectors are 11mm long and my marks (2 parallel scratches near the centre) are 4mm long. The other thing I need to know is how those green relay sockets are removed and how you get the female connectors in them, er, out, in order to squeeze them, etc?
Thanks.
Edit - you can probably guess why I need to know this. As some of you know, I've had an intermittent 'No crank, no start' problem for a while. Everything tests OK, you fiddle about, change a relay or whatever and it fixes it for 6 months until the next time.
Well, the other day it wasn't intermittent, so this is my best chance to finally fix this for good. Starter works instantly with a remote starter on tab of S post and Batt + ve. No resistance from tab of S post to Relay terminal 5 on relay holder. Starter relays (yep, I have more than one these days) test fine with no resistance on spades 5 and 3 (load side) with 12v put across spades 1 and 2 (switch/coil side). A voltage drop test between terminal 3 on relay holder (the load 'in' side) and Batt + ve shows no voltage drop at all.
Relay out, ignition on, handbrake off and a jumper wire (thick wire with a spade on it, plugged into terminal 3 of relay holder) touched onto terminal 5 (load out side to solenoid S post connector) of relay holder and the car starts instantly.
One thing is certain, I will have this one.