Today I mostly fettled about swapping a squeelin starter motor, off with the old and on with my refurbed one.
All good to go, battery reconnected, key in, turn.........nothing, not even a click.
Scratches head under me hat and nearly burst into tears.
Starter off, bench tested it, works fine.
Back on again, as before, nowt, nadda, zilch.
Scratches head again, then thought, lets check cable earths, sure enough, I'd not even put the strap onto the bolt behind the headlight.
Sorted that out and put key in, turns and joy of joys the engine spun over.
Now there is an add on here that is very puzzling.
This A2 developed a hard starting issue where if it was pointed uphill, it was a b****r to start, over the last couple of days, it's been up on quite tall ramps so I could get under it to drop the starter motor out.
When I put the key in and turned it I really just thought it would now turn over and that would be it, but no, the engine fired up on the first crack, bit clacky for a couple of seconds due to the oil being at the back of the sump but non the less, it started.
Very strange indeed.
Any thoughts?