Today started good, with the Anglia passing it's MOT test with flying colours.
I then came home had brekkie and proceeded to clean the car with some industrial sized paper roll, cleaning some of the Waxoyl off the flat paint surfaces etc, starting with the engine bay.
I fitted a new Ignition Coil last week, bought for £27, and proceeded to crack one of the terminals while tightening the small nut holding the negative cable.
Today, i managed to break it off completely,
The following pics will show just what a flawed and weak design it is, and made me wonder how many people have paid for a second coil because they broke the first one.
Anyway, at 12.45, I tried to call Small Ford spares who supplied the one I managed to break.... no reply
Called Colin, my local factor, No he said, none in stock, £27 was a good price, he could not match it.
Being who I am, I thought "Sod it I can try fix it" ...... pics show it not as easy to do.... but I figured out the terminal was hollow and held the wire from inside the coil in place with a drop of solder from the top..... so I warmed up the soldering iron, melted the solder and pulled the wite out, next I cleaned the hole, straigtened the tip of the wire poking out, and trid to solder a drop onto it, or even to unite it with the broken bit.... no luck.
I then prayed and filled the terminal with solder, melted it, and pushed it over the little tip, holding it long enough to set,and checked the resistance ( I know nothing about auto electrics) and found there was still something happening.
Lastly, I cut up the packaging of the new soldering iron, and taped it around the body of the coil and created a box around the terminal and filled it all with fast setting epoxy resin..... gets hot man. I also protected the thread of the terminal and then filled it, next up I did the rest of it.
Lastly, cleaned and re-fitted it all to the car, and drove it back to Nicola's place.
The car has been called into wedding service for next weekend.... do not ask me, ask Nicola.
Thank goodness for patience and wanting to use the money elsewhere.
Pics:
Broken the initial view.
Resin cast.
All the resin done.
Re-fitted. Started alright too.
I then came home had brekkie and proceeded to clean the car with some industrial sized paper roll, cleaning some of the Waxoyl off the flat paint surfaces etc, starting with the engine bay.
I fitted a new Ignition Coil last week, bought for £27, and proceeded to crack one of the terminals while tightening the small nut holding the negative cable.
Today, i managed to break it off completely,
The following pics will show just what a flawed and weak design it is, and made me wonder how many people have paid for a second coil because they broke the first one.
Anyway, at 12.45, I tried to call Small Ford spares who supplied the one I managed to break.... no reply
Called Colin, my local factor, No he said, none in stock, £27 was a good price, he could not match it.
Being who I am, I thought "Sod it I can try fix it" ...... pics show it not as easy to do.... but I figured out the terminal was hollow and held the wire from inside the coil in place with a drop of solder from the top..... so I warmed up the soldering iron, melted the solder and pulled the wite out, next I cleaned the hole, straigtened the tip of the wire poking out, and trid to solder a drop onto it, or even to unite it with the broken bit.... no luck.
I then prayed and filled the terminal with solder, melted it, and pushed it over the little tip, holding it long enough to set,and checked the resistance ( I know nothing about auto electrics) and found there was still something happening.
Lastly, I cut up the packaging of the new soldering iron, and taped it around the body of the coil and created a box around the terminal and filled it all with fast setting epoxy resin..... gets hot man. I also protected the thread of the terminal and then filled it, next up I did the rest of it.
Lastly, cleaned and re-fitted it all to the car, and drove it back to Nicola's place.
The car has been called into wedding service for next weekend.... do not ask me, ask Nicola.
Thank goodness for patience and wanting to use the money elsewhere.
Pics:
Broken the initial view.
Resin cast.
All the resin done.
Re-fitted. Started alright too.
