Thanks for all your posts on this.
Sorry, I should've said it's a 1978 model.(I rather dashed
off the email during a quick break at work)
Indications: I had a click then the ignition light dimmed.
Cheers,
Martin
(I'm about to go to the car park to drive home - fingers
and most other appendages crossed)
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:46:57 -0000 Paul Hunt
<paul.hunt1@virgin.net> wrote:
> What were the indications that were pointing at the starter motor? I would
> expect this to be a click from the relay and solenoid as you turn the key to
> start, no cranking, but the ignition warning light dims significantly. If
> the warning light didn't dim at all (or you didn't get the warning light
> when you turned on the ignition) then you weren't even energising the
> starter - could be ignition switch, relay, solenoid ar any of the
> interconnections depending on how many clicks you heard.
>
> You don't say the year, but generally it is the inertia starters as fitted
> to pre-68 cars that lock with the flywheel and have to be rocked free, I
> have never heard of a pre-engaged starter doing it (which isn't to say etc
> etc). If the starter was jammed then you should have heard a 'clonk' as it
> freed.
>
> If it's done it once it will almost certainly do it again. My V8 started
> intermittently chattering the solenoid on cranking a while ago, and very
> intermittently doing nothing at all. Very difficult to track down as it was
> so infrequent, but eventually it came to stay, which at least allowed me to
> trace and fix it. At one point I was sure it was the starter itself, but it
> turned out to be a corroded connector on the solenoid.
>
> PaulH.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin C. Jones <M.C.Jones@staffs.ac.uk>
> To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Date: 18 November 1999 16:20
> Subject: Sort of breakdown
>
>
> >After paying at a petrol station at the weekend, I returned
> >to my MGB, turned the key - no response. Indications seemed
> >to point to the starter motor. I rocked her to and fro in
> >fourth gear, tried again and hey presto she fired up.
> >
> >My question is:
> >
> >Can this happen as a one off or should I check out the
> >starter motor? I seem to be OK with it this week so far.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Martin
> >
> >
> >
>
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