Thread: What did you do with or to your Disco today

Originally Posted by DeepBarney

Cursed it for failing to start and making me miss work. Both batteries are charged but it doesn't crank when the key is turned (all the electrics come on and work though). It did the same thing yesterday morning but eventually fired up and then gave me no more problems. I suspect it has something to do with the time it spent in a deep puddle when wheeling the other day, like perhaps the starter motor or solenoid got some water in them and are acting up. Its only been twice now this has happened but both times I've been parked pointed up hill, no problems when starting on level ground yesterday (water running to the back of the starter motor and shorting out a connection?).

Trying to figure out if pulling this starter motor is within my abilities and tools at hand or if I need to get it over to a shop somehow and cry for my wallet.

Edit: Oh, and the park brake just decided to join in on the fun. It's all floppy and doesn't engage anything until halfway up, and then when it does start to catch doesn't want to release.

I would kill for an old 70's F150 right now. Rare it is when I ever had one of those give me such mechanical woes, and when they did at least they were super easy to work on. (Though I do realize these problems were likely self inflicted and not the cars fault, I just wish it was less prone to suffer at the hands of an idiot and easier to fix when it did).

i thought you were in a hurry to rush back to the US? are you still in Oz? are you too scared to go back because of the two choices of leader you have over there? hee hee

Mine came home on the back of a tilt tray today, first time in 3 years of ownership.

Aux battery hadn't been holding charge so took it back to get it checked out and after removing it couldn't get it started.

I have modified the ignition wiring after fitting a Scorcher dizzy and it runs around the front of the aux battery round to the top of the lhs inner guard where I have the coil mounted so assumed that this has got disturbed some how. Spent a lot of time checking that out then checked spark and was fine.

I put a new fuel pump in a couple of weeks ago so checked the voltage at the pump and it was only around 5v.

Called racq and the bloke checked everything, confirmed there was no fuel getting through and that there was not enough voltage at the pump. He reckoned that when he checked the -ve feed to the pump that it was pulsing.

Looks like I've got a few things to look into tomorrow. It's just too much of a coincidence to me that it happened after removing the aux battery and maybe disturbing the ign wiring, but also haven't done that many kms since replacing the fuel pump. I didn't replace the whole unit, just bought a pump and fitted it into the carrier assembly, so maybe I have stuffed something there.

Will start with running 12v directly to the pump, see what happens and take it from there.

So glad I have racq ultimate. Got towed from Rocklea to Kippa Ring, about 50 kms for nothing even though my membership is for my other car.