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The car was running fine. I just wired in the new Acewell dash, all worked fine. Took the dash off and disconnected all wires so I can shorten/ tidy them up. Now as soon as I connect the battery neg the starter solenoid spins?

I have made sure all the dash wires are not touching anything or grounding out and I cant find anything obvious.

Any one any idea where to look as it might be something easy that Im over looking.

Thats what you get for sneeking into the garage to work on the kit when I should be out in the pouring rain trying to fit a new turbo to SWMBO car

thanks

Andy

[Edited on 15/7/12 by AndyW]

Haunted

Is it a key'd ignition? push button start?
Is the button/key being pushed by a part of the dash that isnt located correctly?

sierra column with switch, even with the key out as soon as I hook up the battery it spins the solenoid?

AAAARRRRRGGGGGhhhhh

have you wired up the relay for the starter motor inhibitor ?

Yes Warren, relay wired up and was functioning as it should, as I said all was fine before, now I undid what I had added with regards to the dash and this problem has come up!

start by taking the relay out and see if it still spins. Check or change the relay.

Plug the dash back in and see if it still happens.

pull the solenoid wire off, then plug in a test lamp.

connect it all together, then start pulling fuses out one at a time till the light go's out, then you can at least begin tracing it to a single live feed wire.

And follow your solenoid wire back up into the dash testing any joints for power or a short (and checking for chafing) until you find out where its getting the spurious voltage from.

Its just a slow methodical process of elimination really, as if the solenoid is supplied by a relay, find out if the relay is faulty and if its not find out where the relay is getting a false signal from.

I will be checking the relay tomorrow so will let you know what I find

Well the switched live to the starter had broken the terminal and was touching the perm live from batt. A bit of JB weld and problem solved

Thanks to everyone who offered advise

Andy

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Originally posted by AndyW
Well the switched live to the starter had broken the terminal and was touching the perm live from batt. A bit of JB weld and problem solved

Thanks to everyone who offered advise

Andy

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Originally posted by AndyW
Well the switched live to the starter had broken the terminal and was touching the perm live from batt. A bit of JB weld and problem solved

Thanks to everyone who offered advise

Andy

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The question(s) I would be asking are, WHY had it broken.???? and,
Could it happen again.???

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