Breakdown and no Ignition warning light. Chim 450 Serp

[QBee]

Do add the agitator wire to your checks.....I cannot claim to understand it, but it as been the problem before.

[rabowman]

Good morning.
Have done all qbee's checks and found everything to be ok (changed both fuses anyhow)
Just to reiterate turn ignition on and no warning light.

!2v to live and 11.7 to ign on alternator.

Ign light works if you disconnect from alternator and earth it.

Car starts fine but no charge from alternator.

Could I have been sent a faulty one ???

[lancepar]

"Do add the agitator wire to your checks.....I cannot claim to understand it, but it as been the problem before."

Just a note about the function of the agitator/exciter wire for peeps who were not aware.
An alternator will not charge when rotating until it gets excited with a 12v fed, this is the ignition - red light. Once charging the red light will extinguish.

I'll get me coat

[rabowman]

UPDATE.... I refer honourable members to my previous thread of Tip Of The Year...nominating Chimp On Gas ref Velcro to hold down the dashboard top roll.

Please can I nominate myself for PRAT OF THE YEAR !!

Alternator/charging all sorted and ok....I had to remove the alternator a few weeks ago to change the thermostat. Decided to extend the thin wires to alternator so I could put them on easily.

Got the little bast...s wrong way round I do not use the car often and as I plug it into an Accumate after any use the battery obviously has had enough oomph to run the car.

Thanks for all your help, it is what makes this forum so great.

Watch out for further prattiness....feeling my age !!

[QBee]

Well done for sorting it and for alerting us amateurs to another possible issue. We all make mistakes. Good on you for admitting yours. It helps us to know the pitfalls.

I had the bonnet off and the radiator out of my car yesterday and just put the nuts for the rad, the bonnet hinge and something else all together where i wouldn't lose them.
Came to put one of the rad mount nuts back on and only managed three turns before it jammed and damaged the thread on the mount.
Tried to tighten the nut past the problem, and ripped the rubber mount in two. Had to take the rad out again to unbolt the broken mount from the rad. And then get the rad back in again. What tt designed the radiator to be wider the the access space?

Moral of my story? Pop each nut back on its bolt thread before you forget which is which - I had muddled imperial with one pitch with metric with a different pitch.

At least my fibre glassing and filling of my front corner cracks was a success. Only took a day and a half, totally exhausted me and required the four post ramp, power sanding tools and expert advice of one Mat Smith, gentle giant of the TVR fettling brigade. Not to speak of the assistance at various stages of the enthusiastic Will. But I managed a job myself, if not on my own, and am damned proud of it. Just the spraying to go, and I am definitely not attempting that one myself.