New S2 Avant Nothelle N300 owner

[Tractor Dave]

Starter motor cattle trucked!
Ordered another.



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[Tractor Dave]

I've had the starter in bits and all looks not too bad inside considering its 25 years old and done nearly 190k! The brushes are still good. I think the issue is the small braided wire that runs between the starter and the solenoid. It's nearly all burnt/corroded away meaning that it cant carry the necessary current to turn the motor. I've got another starter coming tomorrow from my local Bosch service centre. While there, I will order a new brush set which comes with the braid wire. Then I should have a good working spare. What confused me (its not difficult) was that it worked on the bench fine!

Something else strange happened before I called it a day. The fan just started all on its own.

[steve briance]

The only time my car has ever failed to start was when that little braided wire burnt through in a puff is smoke. Soldered in a new fat wire and carried on using the motor that's got 226k miles on it! I don't know why I bother having spare starters, they never seem to wear out!

[Tractor Dave]

She purrs!
Started first turn of the key.
Not sure how to upload the video.
A few issues to sort out. Oil leak at oil cooler, small coolant leak and the fan doesn’t seem to come on when the engine has warmed up. The after run fan and pump is working. The aux oil gauge jumps straight to max on start up. Not sure if that’s correct. Also, the aux oil temp didn’t move above 60. Don’t think that’s correct either.
Anyway, ran her up to temp and changed the oil. Quite mucky.



Really chuffed even though it took ages!


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[Rikki Kitto]

Nice work fella bet ya can't wait for it's first run, oil pressure is at 5 bar on start up then drops to about 2 when at running temp

[Error404]

Congratulations Dave
Your oil will take an age to heat up without any load on the engine I wouldn’t be too worried about that. Test your rad fan switch & relay.

[Lago Blue]

Hallelujah,

Is it perhaps significant that an alternate possible use of your kneeling mat from your photo was instrumental in the final details of this resurrection?

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

Nice one Dave, congrats.

Looking forward to the video if you can.

[newsh]

Well done mate
As said the gauges seem normal.
Short out the otter switch and see if the fan cuts in.

[Tractor Dave]

Thanks everyone.

Shorted out the fan at the plug end and it runs. So either a poor connection, faulty sender or I didn’t run it long enough to get hot enough to kick the fan in. I’ve cleaned up the contacts and will re try later. There was also an air lock which I think I’ve sorted.



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[LHD_Kid]

Nice one Dave...! soon be belting up the road...

[steve briance]

Woohoo!

[Tractor Dave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTJ...ature=youtu.be

Sorry its not very long. I had to run back and stop the engine as oil was pissing out of the oil cooler union! At least it shows I have good oil pressure.

I let the oil settle and it was actually quite clean with no visible particles in it at all! Just went a bit brown.

Before I tried to start the engine, I took the plugs out and turned the engine over until I had some oil pressure. Put the plugs back in and then it fired up first turn of the key.

[sjw185]

Congratulations to you
I had similar issue with cooling fan after engine build, mine turned out to be coolant not pressurizing due to faulty expansion tank cap, got a new cap and all was good.

[steve briance]

Started up quickly! That's a good sign of good things to come.

The oil you dropped out did look pretty brown for a few minutes running, I wouldn't say that is a bad thing - it shows there was dirt / assembly lube and god knows what else in there which now isn't. Once you have done some proper running in miles where the engine has been under varying loads for a couple of hundred miles, I imagine you may see a few more bits but if they don't reappear after changing that oil - press on and enjoy it!