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munch90

Member Since: 26 Oct 2013
Location: guildford
Posts: 3558

starting is no different with or without

personally I never bothered all though winter with then

of course depends on outside temp , but down south I never needed them even on coldest winter day

as you know its a transit engine , there was a problem with glowplug wiring burning out on the transit and the fix was just the wire and leave it , never ever had anyone say they had starting problems and seen hundreds of them with no plugs working
one reason why I done it was because of the wire burning out , and put a small switch on front of seat box so if it was really cold I can just set switch for plugs to work as normal

19th Jun 2015 9:04am

Caterham

Member Since: 06 Nov 2008
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 6308

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

M90,

I've suggested stuff in the past which others have thought ridiculous.......

Well this time I'm thinking it's ridiculous but hoping you're gonna tell it's normal......

I put one of them aux outlets in the back wired off that 'spare' wire behind the speaker trim piece.

And for a long time now I've used it for my sub woofer as a temp installation? Unplugged it tonight and things seemed immediately better.....could it be? Could it by chance have any impact on the rear brake lights / ecm / clutch switch???

The aux outlet was the sole + and - for the sub. And was a poor connection at the as the sub isn't secured?

Will test for the next few days?

19th Jun 2015 4:00pm

munch90

Member Since: 26 Oct 2013
Location: guildford
Posts: 3558

Cant see how they could be any linked at all

19th Jun 2015 4:03pm

munch90

Member Since: 26 Oct 2013
Location: guildford
Posts: 3558

Caterham are you disconnecting the battery each time you touch the electrics ?

20th Jun 2015 7:11am

Caterham

Member Since: 06 Nov 2008
Location: Birmingham
Posts: 6308

in a word no.

I presume pulling the sub out of the aux outlet wouldn't be a problem?

and disconnecting / reconnecting the switch on the side of the transfer box was while the ignition was off so again I'm assuming this wouldn't have been a problem either?

to my mind there's a poor connection / earth fault or similar relating to the clutch switch and / or the hi-lo for the revs to have done what they did last night?

I'm more inclined to think it's the hi-lo as it might explain the problem in the past where I've pulled off the drive first thing in the morning at it's felt like the throttle pedal has died - perhaps it was jumping into the low response mode associated with selecting lo range? also the sensation of loosing power while cruising at a steady speed - my automatic reaction being to remove foot from accelerator and re-apply (seems to fix it) - hmmm that make me wonder it could be the accelerator potentiometer - but that wouldn't explain the tick over speed not increasing in hi - lo?

so back to the hi-lo switch and clutch switch or power feeds to them?

20th Jun 2015 8:38am

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