Hello all,
This is my first post to this site, but I’ve had various old British cars over the years, and have been generally able to deal with the various fixes and problems that arise with them. Of course that’s much of the enjoyment of having them. However British electrics have not been one of my favorites in that area. With that said, of course that is what has stricken my 61 TR3a. The car has been restored within the past year by a friend in the local British car club who does a very nice restoration overall. The car looks and runs excellently until a day ago, while out on perhaps its last run before winter. (of course). It happened while motoring along, all going well, when a sudden small spark and pop from behind the dash happened and the engine died, the gen light on the dash came on and after pulling over to the side of the road, no power to anything. I quickly popped the hood and disconnected the battery. No sign of anything under the hood, and on examining behind the dash as best I could all I could see only two small white wires hanging down, but nothing else. After towing it home, and looking at a wiring diagram, it appeared these white wires were from the push starter switch and going to the ignition switch nd then to the gen dash light and to the fuse box on one side, and to then to the coil. I reattached those as per the diagram and still nothing. The only power I can find is at the starter solenoid at these top terminal with the brown wires out. No power at the bottom output to the red/white wire, which goes to the starter push switch. That’s kind of it so far. Don’t know if it could be the control box, the solenoid, the lighting switch (I had just turned on the lights a few minutes prior to the electrical excitement) Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated.
Rob
TRrover
This is my first post to this site, but I’ve had various old British cars over the years, and have been generally able to deal with the various fixes and problems that arise with them. Of course that’s much of the enjoyment of having them. However British electrics have not been one of my favorites in that area. With that said, of course that is what has stricken my 61 TR3a. The car has been restored within the past year by a friend in the local British car club who does a very nice restoration overall. The car looks and runs excellently until a day ago, while out on perhaps its last run before winter. (of course). It happened while motoring along, all going well, when a sudden small spark and pop from behind the dash happened and the engine died, the gen light on the dash came on and after pulling over to the side of the road, no power to anything. I quickly popped the hood and disconnected the battery. No sign of anything under the hood, and on examining behind the dash as best I could all I could see only two small white wires hanging down, but nothing else. After towing it home, and looking at a wiring diagram, it appeared these white wires were from the push starter switch and going to the ignition switch nd then to the gen dash light and to the fuse box on one side, and to then to the coil. I reattached those as per the diagram and still nothing. The only power I can find is at the starter solenoid at these top terminal with the brown wires out. No power at the bottom output to the red/white wire, which goes to the starter push switch. That’s kind of it so far. Don’t know if it could be the control box, the solenoid, the lighting switch (I had just turned on the lights a few minutes prior to the electrical excitement) Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated.
Rob
TRrover