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I've been helping Adam (boogie-90) out he has a early 24v, and the dizzy packed in, he oreded a new 24v dizzy.
I went this morning to change the dizzy, done and all OK, car started up but needed timing up,
All was well with the binnacle, all lights a instruments OK.

I left but I needed further help, so went back this afternoon with Paul, (brookie66J)
We set things up and Paul was on the lamp and I was on the dizzy, Adam started the car, and start to get the timing done, Paul and I swapped over and we set the timing all seemed well them Adam said the rev counter wasn't showing anything so Paul went to set the base idle, but when I looked nothing was working on the instrument panel.?????
Stopped the engine and checked around but every time we turn the key we get no lights working on the panel but the engine starts up and runs great.
Looks like we have lost the power to the binnacle.
No oil, battery, rec counter, no ignition or any other warning lights??
So where should I be looking
All other system working, main beam blue light and incicator lights are working

Never heard of that one

I would be looking at either, fuses, earthing points, or the positive lead coming from the battery.

It has to be something around there, as the binnacle hasn't moved

I will have a look at the manuals when I get a chance.

Any idea's would be helpful, going over to Adams tomorrow to try and do some testing

Hi Malc strange one i would take a spare binnacle seems theres a bad earth to binnacle
on the car if all fuses are ok,unplug it and re insert connectors on the binnacle,you may
have a spike when doing the dissy,and burnt wire on the binnacle plugs/dry joint etc

Check all the plugs that go into the dashboard, ‘ break & remake them all’.

Check & clean Dashboard earths

Kit

Thanks for all the replies.
Paul (brookie66J) managed to find the issue with the lack of power to the binnacle,
Turned out the be the Meter fuse had blown
But what was getting me the "meter" fuse also powers the window's, which were working OK, but when Paul using his multi meter found one side on the fuse had power and the other side didn't. Changed the fuse and all OK again (phew)
I had vision's of stripping out the binnacle and most of the wiring.
So thanks to Paul and his multi meter,
Adam is one happy chappie, new dizzy fitted and car running again.

Great news, well done to all involved shows wot a club it is

Well done .
How a fuse fails can tell you something.
If you can see a small 'ball' on each broken end chances are it was running at max capacity for too long / tired.
If nothing is left or spattered everywhere then something or somebody shorted the circuit somewhere ...................in which case you need to
find the fault before replacing it.
If yours fails again, try to remember the last item you switched on.

jrh wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 29, 2022 12:55 pm

Well done .
How a fuse fails can tell you something.
If you can see a small 'ball' on each broken end chances are it was running at max capacity for too long / tired.
If nothing is left or spattered everywhere then something or somebody shorted the circuit somewhere ...................in which case you need to
find the fault before replacing it.
If yours fails again, try to remember the last item you switched on.

Words of wisdom as usual.