Non Starter Cabby

[Ollie]

well fellow cabby owners got a prob with the all blue

picked the car up and it fired up no problem stopped at the garage on the way home and it would not start again so i got a jump start and away she went

time to go to ford fair on sunday and at 5.00 in the morning it would not start so alice kindly push started me lol and again off it went .thought with a good drive and 3 hours charging no probs but no went to leave ford fair and nothing so the lads gave me a push start ( and after giving a 3 door cossie a push start eariler in the day thought it was pretty funny )

got home on sunday and unpacked the car and again nothing on the key so thought ok battery is fooked

went away to work for a week and left another battery on charge while i was away .came home swapped the battery over and still nothing on the key

so thought rite full battery must be the starter motor ..changed that over today and nothing waited till alice came home put the jump leads on and still nothing on the key but tied a rope to it and started within 50 yards

outside the house now and still nothing on the keys again

all ideas welcome

thanks in advance

ollie

[Guest nick]

try touching a live to the smaller wire on the starter if it turns over i had same prob a few times with faulty relay/fusebox

[Guest mikecurd]

I have seen this problem loads of times. Most common fault will be a bad earth to the engine. Stick a jump lead on the battery earth terminal and put the other end to a good point on the engine. If that makes it start test the earth lead with a meter and clean up connections on engine side. The next thing to do is check the solenoid wire red/black gets battery voltage on start position and that the starter power feed remains at battery voltage in the start position, if its either of these there are a number of things to check next.