3 hours ago, phaeton said:

WHAT!!! have you ordered this, have you checked with everybody else before ordering

Sorry, latest BBC weather gives light showers on Sunday and it's also an unwritten rule that if I take the cobra out of the garage it will almost certainly rain on it before I put it back ☹️

I’ll be there on the Saturday… I’m a southerner!

16 hours ago, James Agg said:

I’m a southerner!

Unfortunately there is no actual law against it.

However in disturbing news, I pulled off the drive this morning, went to drive off & the engine died & would not restart, been out most of the day but just managed to have a look, I don't have a constant 12V at the coil, put a jumper wire in & it starts now, question is why. I rewired it totally over the winter & made a very detailed wiring diagram on a spreadsheet, which now appears to elude me.

Edited May 28May 28 by phaeton
spilling mustikes

The joys of car wiring.

The horn stopped working on the cobra last weekend. The horns themselves worked, the switch worked but the supply to the switch dropped to about 6V when you pressed it. After several hours of wriggling round on my back under the dash I found a corroded connection which took just a couple of minutes with the soldering iron to sort out. All good now ................ until the next thing 🤪

Yeah I know what the problem is, the coil has lost it's switched live feed, it gets a feed whilst cranking position 3 which should then stay live when you let go of the switch & it drops back to Position 2. If I jumper a switched live to the coil all is good. I wish I hadn't deleted the spreadsheet 😂 😂 😂 TBH if I have to come down with a jumper wire laid in the cockpit to the engine at the back it's not the worst solution, but I'd like to get it fixed.

I do not know what ignition switch you have.

I had this problem on my sierra derived switch.

The contacts inside the switch had corroded. I stripped the switch and polished the contacts reassembled it. The problem went away.

43 minutes ago, IanS said:

The contacts inside the switch had corroded. I stripped the switch and polished the contacts reassembled it. The problem went away.

It's the original Skoda Rapid switch, but I'm getting 12V out, so it's looking like a break in the wire, or a bad connector somewhere, annoyingly I've only recently put all the bodywork back on which now makes access very awkward, I don't bend like I used to in the old days.

I will be there sat and camping over, bring a friend and his zero too.

1 hour ago, phaeton said:

......, I don't bend like I used to in the old days.

3 days on and I've still got the aches and pains from all that wriggling !

Sorry I appreciate we're off topic now, other than I need to get it fixed to get there tomorrow, I've found the issue or at least I'm 99% sure I have, what I don't understand is this is only feeds the coil on the positive side of the coil along with the positive feed to the alternator it's a 15A fuse, I wouldn't have thought the draw would have got anywhere near that, so why is it getting hot, or is it just that it's a cheap nasty Chinesium fuse with cheap nasty plastic?

Good question. I would guesstimate 5A for the ignition and another couple for the alternator so well within the capabilities of a 15A fuse. If the fuse hasn't actually blown I would suspect a bad connection to it - crimp to fuse or crimp to wire, that would have got everything hot until it failed. I would replace both crimps and the fuse and see what happens.

Hi all

I have to apologise to everyone. Having cajoled everyone to attend this year to keep the Show going, I have had to cry off. I had a mini-medical emergency during the week resulting in a couple of hours in A&E (it was a quiet day😄). I am absolutely fine now but not 100% recovered and did not think it was sensible to do a 6-hr round journey in the kit.

Sorry

Al

Get better soon, I too cried off after my ignition issue, I wanted to prove it was fixed before going a 280 mile round trip

I hope your ok Alan

Wish I was able to make it, had everything set, then day before damaged my back cleaning out a pool for grandkids in my garden, in agony, couldn't get into the Luego period, so hopefully later in the year I can make it to a show😒