1967anglia

Hi. smallfordspares.co.uk do them for 19 pound, thats around 40 each, postage isnt that much. got brake cylinder sent and postage was 3.90 pound

Have you checked that the points arent stuck open, or that there is power to them when they are open with key on.

battery postive runs to solenoid which other side of solenoid run to starter, battery neg runs to body of car and to either engine block or gearbox to engine mount bolts. Next I would say happy driving. One other thing this car is auto, it is in park???

I would go have a beer and try again once you have the earth wire back on, either to engine or gearbox housing.

But sounds like wants to stick with orignal engine. Cam swap not that big of a job on these engines, plus you need cert for 1600, not sure if they still do low volume cert. Normal cert would take more work than a cam swap.

This what I thought with mine, so replaced started motor and solenoids but still did same thing, but it all work fine on the bench thats what lead me to running the earth wire. If your start is working out of car it wont be the bushes. There seams to be a few old ford up your way with starting issues, maybe its something in the air....

I would run a wire from neg battery to mounting bolt on starter. just to make sure it is a bad earthing issues.

switch/reg=solenoid. Can bridge to connection with screwdriver if game. Will let you know if its stuffed, if works with screwdriver but not with key.

"so neg on battery an positive on the positive side of switch or reg" Do you have to neg of battery connected to start switch (shouldnt be) only to car body and maybe engine block or head.

If you have a light tester, take dissy cap off, turn on key put tester on points wire/screw turn motor over by hand, light on when points open, light goes out when points shut. Light should go on just at time mark.

Im sure I could clean up the bbq to have the pleasure of some anglias park up drive.

Usually in christchurch alot, but really want to get house finsihed so can get stuck into my anglia. But if do head that way will let you know.

Move closer to timaru and I could help you fix it.

If the motor is still ok and you use it as a daily driver, I would put a mild cam(gt30 or 234), $135 for a regrind, 28/32weber plus manifold mayber $150+ and set of extractors $50, bit of an exhaust upgrade $???. Would make it more fun to drive and not break the bank. specialy if you can put it all on and in yourself.

I had sort of same issue with mine, would work out of the car but not in. So I ran an earth wire from battery to starter mounting bolt just to see if it was an earthing issue. And is now the best start of this type I have ever heard (worked great). Remove wire and went back to click click wrrrrr.