now got a spark!!

[bondingi]

After 6 weeks finally got the S to fire. The fault was so simple but needed a friend who knew his way round the circuit. The push on rubber connection to the negative side of the coil had corroded inside and the wire had just broken!I was told that water creeps inside these type of connections and although all looks fine from the outside as the wires corrode the spark eventually gets weaker till nothing.Changed mine now to a couple of ring connectors that are held onto each side of the coil by a couple of nuts.

Also found a good web site during my problems that could be helpful if your interested in more about the injection system on the 2.8.
www.auto-solve.com/mech_inj.htm

[shnozz]

I had the same thing happen with mine and Mr AA man fixed it for me. Bloody annoying when you realise how easy it was but then stuck at side of road with no multimeter it aint as easy to track

[Psychobert]

Must have a beer again sometime and get a full list of various automotive cock-ups from you.. Lets see, MGTF into the armco, check, dodgy coil lead, check. Expecting to have my newly painted bonnet burnt off by the overrun from an F40 any day now..

Cheers for the digging around earlier. Ridiculously simple problem once you know what it is..

[shnozz]

Psychobert said:

Must have a beer again sometime and get a full list of various automotive cock-ups from you.. Lets see, MGTF into the armco, check, dodgy coil lead, check. Expecting to have my newly painted bonnet burnt off by the overrun from an F40 any day now.. Cheers for the digging around earlier. Ridiculously simple problem once you know what it is..

considering your car is only a few numbers different from my old puppy, its not surprising that yours also mirrors any fault I had

no worries re the advice, you can bypass the coil lead with a single wire and just use one of the old plugs and wire it in - sticking in a fuse in one of those little holders half way down - it got me going and mobile until I could get it fixed, just had to make sure it was unplugged each time I turned off the ignition to ensure there wasnt a constant feed to the coil.

Hope you get it sorted soon mate - and defo on the

[Psychobert]

Useful by-pass until I get the chance to get a new lead from Joolz.

May be time to invest in an oil burner for the winter. For some reason, I'm thinking of a Saxo

[shnozz]

dont you have central heating in sheffield?

[GreenV8S]

shnozz said:

sticking in a fuse in one of those little holders half way down

An ordinary female spade connector fits a standard blade fuse, so you don't need a special fuse holder. Just knot the wires together at the fuse so tension on the wires can't pull the connector off the fuse iyswim.

[Psychobert]

No, I understand Such things are not required in Gods country due to the balmy micro-climate. Thats why my lid is usually off.

Being a southener at heart, I think its fecking freezing up here now..

[lanciachris]

Simple errors are the hardest to spot

I once overhauled the carb on my beta vx and replaced the ignition amplifier, new ht leads.

Then i tightened up the battery connections... vroom! doh.

[Hoover33]

I replaced ignition leads, rotar arm, distributer and throttle pot....... and then realised no petrol was in the tank.