Battery Distribution Block

[24seven 104]

Having rewired my Mi16 to a 3 row loom I'm not finding there's no juice going to the starter motor (which definitely isn't shafted). The dash lights come on, the relay in the fusebox clicks but the headlights don't even dip (naturally they all work fine too), so there's nothing going to the starter at all. I've got continuity from the 2 brown plugs to the starter and everything else they connect to, but still nothing. Where does the juice from the ignition barrel to the brown plugs come from? Am I right in thinking it's from this block (pictured for reference, this is not how the engine bay is now)? Does this thing itself need to be earthed to the chassis?

 

 

 

What else should be connected to this thing so I can test it all?

 

 

 

Cheers,

Guy

[welshpug 1,737]

otherwise more commonly known on here as the shunt box, apart from the starter motor and altenator everything is fed from here.

 

radiator fans plugged in there, fusebox feed also, connects directly down wires 1 and 1a to 2 pin connector 706.

 

Tachymetric relay is fed directly from there down through the engine wiring look by the looks of it, Wire 20, obviously this may vary with yours being an Mi16 conversion.

 

starter motor is wire 46, connects via brown plug by steering column to fusebox plug D pin 1, feed from ignition through the board is wire +D, connected at plug BA, pin 3.

 

ignition is fed from 4 pin plug MR on the fusebox, this is fed through the board from 706.

Edited February 17, 2010 by welshpug

[24seven 104]

Cheers WP, will check everything today .

[welshpug 1,737]

no probs, all the data is in the Haynes manual, and obviously a lot can't be taken as gospel, but they give you a decent starting point

[24seven 104]

All sorted now. Thanks.

[welshpug 1,737]

yay! what was up?

[24seven 104]

Rather embarrassingly the spade had pulled out of the plug under the dashboard! I checked continuity between the plug on the loom side, not on the car side!