Car has spark! My suby setup, Now just dbl checking all wires to be sure load are good before running |
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Car has spark! My suby setup, Now just dbl checking all wires to be sure load are good before running |
JRust |
Dec 21 2014, 12:00 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 6,309 Joined: 10-January 03 From: Corvallis Oregon Member No.: 129 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Okay so my wrench called last night. Car was all finished & he went to fire it up. Turns over fine but no start. This is what it was doing before the fire. Also off & on it has plagued me since I got the car. I've replaced the ignition with multiple times. I added a push button for the starter to take that off the switch. Seemed like there was to much power going through it which I thought was from the starter. Obviously it is not.
One thing is almost without fail as soon as I put in a new switch & use it I get smoke from it every time. It would be fine right after the brief smoke so I didnt worry to much about it. What else is feeding the ignition switch that may be pushing to much power through it? What do you guys recommend doing here? Cutting out the switch completely? Do you think the problem lies somewhere besides the switch? |
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Dec 22 2014, 10:02 AM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,519 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California |
Tom makes the point again. You need ohmic values to aid in making a decision. Question for Subietech: How many grounds were added to his set up and where are they located. I'm sure that you know what I'm going to say in that you work on the Vanagon conversions. I ran lots of extra grounds for 2 reasons. #1- I'm not the smartest guy on the block and I knew grounds were important on modern vehicles so I'm sure I did an overkill on grounds. #2- I chained my grounds per TOM's suggestion. Although I consider Kugel one of the alleged "rust free" 914's (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) I "know" what the metal looks like at the seams and spot welds so I couldn't trust one body panel to properly transfer the ground to another body panel. Sounds like he had 2 problems. The short at the batt cable makes sense. And the ign switch appears to be another problem but a problem indeed! Hope you can stick around on this board. We can use a REAL Suby mechanic on this Porsche forum. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/welcome.png)
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