by Verna » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:58 pm
I chickened out of fitting the dynamator. It needed me to cut into the wires and he only had a new loom fitted a couple of years ago. So ordered a new dynamo.
Will be fitting that this weekend. Recharged the battery and gave him a couple of runs and had no problems. (other than running out of petrol - dodgy fuel gauge!) even tested to see if the dynamo was working and the headlights brightened. But today it all went wrong. Started fine first thing, but refused to start after the short run to drop off my daughter. Jump started (Lidl jump start power pack is amazing!) and he trundled off to work fine. Getting home was a whole other story. Took 2 jolts to get him going, stalled in slow traffic, sat in a car park for 20 minutes with the engine running to wait for the traffic to clear, as I slowed down for a red light he stalled again and again when I pulled up to my garage. If it wasn't for the jump start pack I'd still be pushing him home!
Anyway, parked up in the garage, engine idling and thought I'd do the headlight test. Turned on the lights and the car stopped!
Hopefully it is just the dynamo.