wolfrace 116 Posted February 27, 2015 That's what I first thought Craig, something snapped off and jamming. Hoping the switch is fubard though as that's a nice quick fix! Wont know until we look I guess. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigdyer05 2 Posted February 28, 2015 Had issues with my blue estate where I had to manually turn back a notch after starting I was abroad one year and asked my nephew to fill her up for me so could get off the plane early doors and do daghenam with out the messing I failed to tell him to turn it back a notch and he had problems restating it at the fuel station He drove all the way to fill her up with the ignition fully engaged then it wouldn't start at all for him I broke down 3 miles from daghenam lol and endowed up been towed in on the back of paul runtons v8 The ballast resist wire was shot and ended up been given one off an escort from the show room Don't think your need a ballast wire with the v8 though joe :thumbup: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PFM1964 5 Posted February 28, 2015 this one any good, been in my garage for more than twenty years or so, still has the shear bolts and one original key, only numbers on it is N573, more than likely came off a MK3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeyGXL 17 Posted February 28, 2015 Update! So Crisis averted! I took the ignition switch off last night and tried turning it by sticking a screwdriver, and it still didnt turn the whole way. I took it apart and found that the return spring has two arms, one of which had snapped off and the broken bit had blocked the key from turning, So i took the spring out completely and cleaned up the contacts and it works! Although it doesnt disengage the starter automatically but i just need to replace that and hopefully it'll go through an MOT without for now. Big thanks to everyone for the guidance and advice and Thanks to Jayne for agreeing to lend me a spare for the MOT :superman: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sheffieldcortinacentre 767 Posted February 28, 2015 good news. that looks like a preface lift lock assembly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nogas 0 Posted July 5 On 2/28/2015 at 8:52 PM, PFM1964 said: this one any good, been in my garage for more than twenty years or so, still has the shear bolts and one original key, only numbers on it is N573, more than likely came off a MK3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nogas 0 Posted July 5 That will work looks good Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
