craig

When you say “3 turns at cranking”, is this a few seconds of cranking, or 20-30+ seconds at a time? Running battery down after a few seconds would indicate a short somewhere, but if you are cranking a long time, then that would be expected to flatten battery. Did you remove plug after cranking and see if it was getting fuel, but you do need the spark check. Smelling fuel does not mean its going in, it may be a leaky pipe or a pressure regulator may have failed. Need to confirm through some of the basics.

Check the advice from DaveMan just a few posts up

Hi Nick I think the battery sounds knackered. Its not voltage you want to measure, but amperage, particualrly the cca value. A lot of batteries seem to have a “last gasp” reserve to start the car when they are going flat or dying, but then wont start again unless they have been running(charging) for a while. My bikes and Ultima suffer this if not left on trickle/saver, and once they go flat they never properly recover. After replacing a few batteries, investing in some Optimates has paid off for me. It “could” be starter if part of the winding is degraded. Or the immobiliser has developed a fault. But sounds like battery to me

Best wishes!

Have got family down that way, always a nice place to visit. Bit of a long detour from Beaulieu though! :-D

Great pics and well done for those attending. Nice one

Found these while sorting my wardrobe this morning. Old school stuff :-) Not many of us that remember this i bet!

Careful Richard, your memory and media library recall skills will soon start to compete with the impeccable Mr AndrewG 👍

Best wiahes :)

Thank you Lee. Good work as always. Looking slick.

Looking good Richard. Did our summer meet up inspire you at all? 😄

Is that launch car yellow then? i couldnt decide if it was white under yellow glare of lights, or a yellow car.

Best wishes!

Congratulations!

I only took a few pics of things i hadn't seen before or i thought were unusual. will see what i have 🙂