No ignition light, no crank of engine when key turned,

[Martyn-123]

Hi,

Confused and need a little advice where to look first.


Engine is a Rover V8 with carbs, Megajolt ignition system.

The lights, horn all the usual pre ignition stuff comes on as usual however when i turn the key to the first click ready to start the ignition light does not come on, the fuel pump does not power up and all the other stuff like indicators, brake lights, oil warning light etc does not power up and no crank when i turn the key.

The ignition key does not appear to have any loose wires and the Megajolt lights up ok.

Is there a fuse in this part of the circuit ? Or where do i start looking to eliminate items,


Regards


Martyn

[Martyn-123]

Hi,


It's my Marcos

[Martyn-123]

Hi,

Day off tommorow so plan to squeeze behind the dashboard, just to clarifty,

I will first check there is power to the brown wire on the ignition barrell, assuming there is i need to then check the white wire and the white/red wire.

Can somebody tell me the difference between these two wires,

[Martyn-123]

And if i plan to remove the wires from the back of the ignition which wires do i connect to do a hotwire to find out if the barrel is faulty or not,


Martyn

[Martyn-123]

So far,

I have a live brown wire at the key barrel

I turn the key and the white wire is then live, the white wire goes to a 10 amp fuse in the fuse box and have a live white at the fuse box when key is turned and the fuse is okay,

Normally when you turn the key to first position the fuel pump starts up and the instruments start working, fuel level, twitch on the tacho, ignition light on etc but getting nothing,


Next please ?

P.S. yes the battery is good, lights, horn all good...