• Hi Guest!
    You can help ensure that British Car Forum (BCF) continues to provide a great place to engage in the British car hobby! If you find BCF a beneficial community, please consider supporting our efforts with a subscription.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

what could be wrong now??????

Share this page

Me too, the norm seems to be twice or three times.

I call the first time a trial fitting, then a final fitting then instelation.
 
We're never really done with these little cars, are we? Always something to keep us busy and learning. Lord knows I've got plenty...
 
So far its remained a Midget, but who knows what he does at night out there when I'm sleeping. I think he hides my tools! Those 1/2 sockets sure do disappear and reapper in the strangest places.
 
My car does that with my tools too! In fact, 70% of the time spent on any job is spent looking for that tool that "I know I just sat down right here a second ago."
 
maybe the starter hung up
 
Yup-yup. "Oldtimers Disease" onset!! I can relate. A 'tea-cart' and discipline help a lot. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

I could almost always count on finding a socket/wrench/screwdriver lyin' somewhere down in the frame area of most of the cars we saw come in the shop. Partner called 'em his "cow tools." Lots of Craftsman or Stanley, some "Made in China," rarely a Snappy or Proto. Most times when the customer was presented with 'em they were declined. Sometimes one'd say: "Wow! I thought I'd lost that years ago!"
 
i agree with leecreek.........
i think the starter was locked up,
(like mine was once) and when u removed
the engine ,it fixed itself........z
 
Oh my word, you don't supose. Yep sounds right to me.
 
Morris said:
My car does that with my tools too! In fact, 70% of the time spent on any job is spent looking for that tool that "I know I just sat down right here a second ago."
Click to expand...

That 70% increases with age.
 
Or p'raps the engine's just a bit "snug" as it's a new rebuild... and she got gun-shy about the amount of "grunt" to put on it. Not surprising after all they've been thru so-far with this engine. Definitely check out the starter.
 
A new engine is going to be stiff. This is very puzzling. Sorry for you troubles. I'm suspecting either a weak battery or weak starter (or as some suggested it could have been locked up) Anyway, this is no consolation now but in the future if you run across this again, pull the plugs and try to rotate it backwards with a socked on the front pulley. You won't hurt the motor rotating it by hand if you don't used excessive force. I never asked if you tried to turn it by hand in the reverse direction but I guess I should have. There are ways to evaluate some of the internal components of an engine without pulling it but lets hope you never have to face that again. Even if the starter gear hung in the flywheel, you should have been able to rotate the engine by hand. Also I think there is a stub on the back of the starter for rotating it with a wrench. I've never had to but when I saw it, I supposed it was for rotating the starter back out of the flywheel if it got hung up.
JC
 
Back
Top