SARTech
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A while back my ignition failed. The switch would turn on the glow plugs but when you rotated it to start nothing happened. This happened while on a road trip,
I rigged up a remote stater button connected to the battery and the starter relay to get me home. I used this for a while until I had time to work on it.
Not wanting to pay for a new ignition switch I bought a push button starter switch. I had planned to install it in the center of the dash in the location of a unknown and unused switch. The rover is somewhat new to me. I have had it for 1 year.
I went to remove the unknown and unused switch (the one in the picture) and found that it still had wires attached to it. I thought I should follow the wires to find out what it was used for. I followed the wires right to the ignition switch??? That is when the light bulb in my head went off. I connected the original wire to the stater solenoid, tried the ignition, no joy, pressed the switch, tried the ignition and the motor cranked over.
Ha, the previous owner had installed a started cutout switch as anti-theft protection I assume.
Somewhere along the line I had pressed the switch and opened the crank circuit. Never take anything for granted.
I rigged up a remote stater button connected to the battery and the starter relay to get me home. I used this for a while until I had time to work on it.
Not wanting to pay for a new ignition switch I bought a push button starter switch. I had planned to install it in the center of the dash in the location of a unknown and unused switch. The rover is somewhat new to me. I have had it for 1 year.
I went to remove the unknown and unused switch (the one in the picture) and found that it still had wires attached to it. I thought I should follow the wires to find out what it was used for. I followed the wires right to the ignition switch??? That is when the light bulb in my head went off. I connected the original wire to the stater solenoid, tried the ignition, no joy, pressed the switch, tried the ignition and the motor cranked over.
Ha, the previous owner had installed a started cutout switch as anti-theft protection I assume.
Somewhere along the line I had pressed the switch and opened the crank circuit. Never take anything for granted.