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What's a lucar? I'm still catching up with electronics and cars!
What's a lucar? I'm still catching up with electronics and cars!
yeah but I was lookin for the solenoid pic too even says lucar on itswine you beat me to it mines bigger then yours
and we should point out that not all vehicles have a starter relay, many dontThe jcb I was doing was a farm mechs own 3cx jcb and was weird there was nothing until I swapped the relays around and then I started to see the lights slightly dim when the key was turned so possibly had two problems slightly dodgey relay combined with the starter connection managed to get a lonnng screwdriver up to the starter to move the lucar and bingo away so we could lift the arms to get the engine covers off etc to see the connections.
correct re the jcb it was doing nothing no reaction on the ign lights when first tested they just glowed and did not change and i wanted to test if there was a relay who's coils where being energized by the starter switch because the starter was difficult to even see, with the bucket down but by swapping relays the key switch started to show more load by the ign lights -----just------- dimming which then gave me the clue it was a low battery and starter fault combined.and we should point out that not all vehicles have a starter relay, many dont
This is something I'm waiting to find out!and we should point out that not all vehicles have a starter relay, many dont
watch you don't get arrested for thatand jiggle your lucar, it was going
Ah right, you learn something every day. Thanks Norm.spade connector are called lucar connectors in the car world crimp connectors are like this
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the other connectors shown in earlier posts are called Lucars and are a slightly better quality connector ------usually.
He has changed the alternatorDoes it have a freewheeling pulley on the alternator? We had a focus and the pulley failed, it would drive the alternator sometimes and othertimes it wouldn't and it took a while to figure out what was going on, especially as the alternator warning light was controlled via the ecu.
Symptoms were the warning light would come on randomly and a voltmeter would show random readings but they didn't always match the light, whilst under the bonnet scratching my head I just happened to notice the alternator wasn't always spinning, new pulley sorted it.
spade connector are called lucar connectors in the car world,
crimp connectors are like this
View attachment 83384
the other connectors shown in earlier posts are called Lucars and are a slightly better quality connector ------usually.
If I said to an auto sparky look at the crimp he would think of these^^^ pictured, but if I said lucar he would be looking for this
with this
^^^
inside it
even though they are both crimped on and both blade connectors it is just the way they are described as the snnoper knew what I was bleating on about