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Gday guys, I recently got my tacho repaired, hooked it up to the coil -ve, reconnected the battery and then the car would not start. There was absolutely no ignition at all, but the lights, radio, gauges etc were all fine. The battery is fine also. I checked the fuses and the 3A fuse for the instrument lamps appeared at first to be blown. I replaced the fuse and the car started and has been running well for the last couple of months.
I have just replaced the tacho wire that runs to the coil -ve as the wire I used initially was an old piece of crap that was lying around in my garage. The car will not start again, the symptoms are exactly the same as previous. I checked the 3A fuse and the fuse is OK but there is no power running through the circuit that the 3A fuse is on (instrument lamps). Can anyone shed any light on what may be happening? Maybe there is some loose connection in the bulkhead or fuse box and just wiggling it around is stuffing this circuit?
Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers

Piers

There are ALWAYS loose connections in the bulkhead connector. In particular the feed to the ammeter as this tends to burn out in the plug. When that goes nothing works as all the current for the car goes through that one spade connection.

Have a look at the Mad Electrical website. That will give you some ideas.

If it isn't the bulkhead connector I would be at a loss as to what was causing it.

I would also check the wiring connector at the bottom of the steering colunm for the ign. switch- there is two- larger wires is the one you want!!

also- for a no key start- but power at other acc's- your safety switch on the tranny- auto or on the clutch petals- manual.check wiring.

move shifter (auto) from park to neutral as you are trying to start!

John Mac

Thanks for the info guys, I wiggled the fuse box around and turned the key at the same time, which took some fairly interesting acrobatic skills, and she fired right up. Obviously a loose connection in this area that needs sorting out....

Cheers

Piers