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Subject: Ignition switch (URGENT) Author: Michael Holman [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11/ 29/ 02, 3:34pm I have a 1985 PT40. The other day when leaving an RV park I started up and oddly a couple of seconds later the engine quit. I restarted and it was fine. I pulled around to the front of the park to hook up the car. Afterwards when I tried to start up nothing happened. The rear ignition worked fine so I drove home with the ignition key in the back. (BTW what exactly does the PULL TO STOP lever do? Just in case I ever need it. My concern is that it cuts fuel in such a way as to loose the prime.) The rear switches checked out so I went at the unpleasent task of getting at the front ignition switch. I found one wire off (red). Only ACC and IGN were possibilities so I put it on IGN. The bus then started from the front but the engine was making a nasty banging noise. I finally realized after a few minutes (groan!) that the starter was engaged. I'm sure I took a few years off my year old starter but it still works fine. With the red on IGN it starts in the first click to the right and keeps the starter running. So now I'm puzzled since it seems the red wire is the starter. I can hotwire it by momentarily putting 12V on this wire. But it could not have been on the ST (start) connection of the switch since there is only one terminal and it already has a wire. This is what I have: BAT - yellow (spliced onto a fairly heavy black wire) ST - black ACC - white, gray (2 wires) IGN - orange, (I also put the red here) It seems that the red should go on ST but then where does the black go and how did it work before? I dont have a schematic for this circuit. Perhaps there is a solenoid that is stuck but that's a very strange coincidence since the failure at the RV park was no start. Maybe the red only fell off when I opened the housing but that still doesn't explain it. Additionally the switch does have rather high resistance readings and should probably be replaced, but this would appear to be a separate issue. To further complciate things we are leaving the country for France on Monday for an unknown duration up to a year (we have some one to take the Bird out while we are gone.) Please respond tres vite if you have any helpful information. Michael Holman [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]