Slow cranking fixed

[broadcom]

Nothing but endless fun since I bought the Griff a few months ago – and that’s both on the road and in the garage. Last night I had the centre console off fixing the heater so I can turn it off before summer comes and I discovered a thick clump of earth cables bolted to the chassis to the left of the gear lever. Jumped for a spanner and managed to tighten it about half a turn. When I cranked her over this morning, I couldn’t believe the difference. I thought the starter ring had slipped off the flywheel or perhaps someone had stolen my spark plugs! Hot starting is now just as brisk. (so brisk that I’m a bit worried now and might purchase a compression tester!)

I thought the earth problem might have cured the jumpy rev counter, but I'm still forced to take a visual average when reading it. Anyone know the cure for a bouncy tachometer? Wire tracing and a bit of exploratory surgery behind the dash is next I think.

[egomeister]

I dont have any idea about your tacho, but your symptoms on the cranking sound like a "feature" of my car! Did it use to just take some time cranking before it started? If it did you may have solved my problem!

Thanks

[broadcom]

egomeister said: I dont have any idea about your tacho, but your symptoms on the cranking sound like a "feature" of my car! Did it use to just take some time cranking before it started? If it did you may have solved my problem!

Thanks

No, it used to start within a second or so, but just didn't turn very quickly which I thought was normal for a big healthy high compression V8!