I'm f*cked off with it now. Got it all back together, bolting in the battery tray was a monster pain in the cock as I could only reach one side of the bolt at a time so had to wedge a spanner on one end then get under and tighten the other. Anyway its in and all looking good.
Sadly the car wont start. It was spinning over but slowly and the charger was saying it was fully charged. checked the plugs and stop solenoid and they both had power but only about 9.5v arse, thought it might be an earth issue but then remembered i'd forgotten to unplug the battery when i started welding. Checked the battery and low and behold only 9.5v fully charged and it was dropping off fast.
Went and got the battery out the rallye and it as a nice healthy 12.5v. Bolted it in and went to start it and *whir whir nothing*, Arse! thats probably dead from having stood for 2 months so thats on charge in the car now.
If it doesn't start this time I'm going to assume its an earth issue. The main earth chassis to battery is well in the battery terminal and I sanded the bit of metal it was going to sit against and its a seat belt bolt so its a thick bit of chassis, well in the hole, no rust etc. There is only one earth from the engine to the chassis but its only an OEM battery cable so not very thick so I might run a second earth from the other side of the engine to the other side of the chassis to see if that improves its chances.
Photos tonight once I've got a longer ethernet cable to move my router as currently I am limited by sockets so its a choice of either hard drive or internet.
EDIT: Just been out and the battery was showing charged which was suspiciously quick. Multimeter says 12.7v at the battery. Tested it and about 10.5v at the glow plugs and at the stop solenoid. Gave it a go at starting and got another *whir whir nothing*. Off to buy earth leads now to bulk it up a bit.
Sadly the car wont start. It was spinning over but slowly and the charger was saying it was fully charged. checked the plugs and stop solenoid and they both had power but only about 9.5v arse, thought it might be an earth issue but then remembered i'd forgotten to unplug the battery when i started welding. Checked the battery and low and behold only 9.5v fully charged and it was dropping off fast.
Went and got the battery out the rallye and it as a nice healthy 12.5v. Bolted it in and went to start it and *whir whir nothing*, Arse! thats probably dead from having stood for 2 months so thats on charge in the car now.
If it doesn't start this time I'm going to assume its an earth issue. The main earth chassis to battery is well in the battery terminal and I sanded the bit of metal it was going to sit against and its a seat belt bolt so its a thick bit of chassis, well in the hole, no rust etc. There is only one earth from the engine to the chassis but its only an OEM battery cable so not very thick so I might run a second earth from the other side of the engine to the other side of the chassis to see if that improves its chances.
Photos tonight once I've got a longer ethernet cable to move my router as currently I am limited by sockets so its a choice of either hard drive or internet.
EDIT: Just been out and the battery was showing charged which was suspiciously quick. Multimeter says 12.7v at the battery. Tested it and about 10.5v at the glow plugs and at the stop solenoid. Gave it a go at starting and got another *whir whir nothing*. Off to buy earth leads now to bulk it up a bit.
