Starting to get a bit hacked off now

[BIGKEV]

Cheers Gordy for all your help on the dog and bone today

 

Basically I have wired in Electronic ignition because I thought My starter was buggered and I had the starter from the Transit pinto which was on elctronic ign so I swapped the starters over and then thought might as well put the electronic ignition on. - cue the nightmare

 

got a bit confusing as I was refering to a capri installation I googled but with BIG G's help we got there in the end

 

So all going well till the "ballast resistor" decided to melt and cause me a shitload of grief... melting wires etc etc ( and burning my finger!)

 

So after lots of pissing about I have got the correct wires going to the correct places and then go to crank the Bastard over .... the starter wont engage on the teeth of the flywheel.

 

Is this because the starter solenoid hasnt fired?

if it hasnt what causes it to not 2 fire?

 

Or is there a difference between two pinto starters ( transits one is smaller in size but I thought it would go the same)

 

and to top it all off my lighter wont work.

[bigdaz27]

take it out and compair it with the old one and test it out of the car

[zetecmk2]

get a zippo

[Jiffer]

stick with it m8, you'll get there in the end.

i sent my diff away for a re-build but big bruv came down tonite and found that the previous owner had replaced the oil seals to the rear half shafts and not sent them all the way home causeing all the grinding noises from the back end.

but these things sent to test us.

[bigdaz27]

i think a transit starter has 9 teath and you need one with 10 teath so i do belive thay are diffrent

[BIGKEV]

will find out tomoz when I compare them -

Will it be ok putting the old starter in - I assume so - we will find out I suppose

[Takeshi]

I tried a Transit starter (J reg) on my Capri once but it didnt work, even though I never wired the ignition side of it, the starter solenoid didnt push into the flywheel.