[Healeys] Problem with starting/ starter motor?

Oudesluys coudesluijs at chello.nl
Wed Jul 18 10:52:36 MDT 2012


Could this be burned/dirty contacts of the Hi-Trq starter motor? 
Apparently a common fault. The contacts can be replaced I think.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL


Op 18-7-2012 17:55, Derek Job schreef:
> My car was totally rebuilt 9 years ago, and has only done about 8,000 miles
> since then. It has a high torque starter which was firing instantly into
> life and starting the engine first go no problems. That was until last
> night. Now I'm getting a strange kind of clicking, but sometimes it jumps
> into life.
>
> Experience with Healeys tells me that coincidences are rare and most likely
> I have done something whilst messing with the electrics, which is exactly
> what I was doing yesterday. My friendly, non-Healey mechanic had installed
> my FIA cut out switch about 2 months ago. At the weekend I tried the
> headlights for the first time and they didn't work. An extensive review by
> me found he had connected one of the wires from the FIA switch to the
> headlight wire that goes to the ignition!  I cut that connection and put
> the headlight wire back to the ignition and bingo all my lights work again.
> At present I haven't re-connected the wire from the FIA switch to anywhere.
> It should go to the coil but I need to identify which coil wire as they are
> all white coming out of the harness and into the ignition switch.
>
> Anyway, that is where I had got to. It sarted Ok once or twice and I went
> for a short run. Later on I tried to start it again and thats when I got
> the funny noise, interspersed with it starting ok, which leads to me to
> think its an electrical connection fault somewhere. They all appear to be
> good connections at the starter solenoid and starter itself and Im
> rechecking the ignition and starter buttom connections but how do I do
> determine if it is a problem with either the solenoid or starter themselves?
>
> Derek
> www.healeysix.net
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