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05-20-2024, 09:03 PM | #1 |
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Left ignition switch on
Hello all, have a 41 stock, everything working good till I left my ignition switch on, probably on for days….now I get nothing, no electrical at all…what did I blow, and could it have fried my points?….thanks for any advice!
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05-20-2024, 09:14 PM | #2 |
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Re: Left ignition switch on
fried points/ burned coil, friend ign resistor are some of the main concerns
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05-20-2024, 09:22 PM | #3 |
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Re: Left ignition switch on
Have you charged the battery?
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05-20-2024, 09:29 PM | #4 |
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I did that on my 37 last year for about 15 minutes. Melted the coil but luckily nothing else damaged.
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05-20-2024, 09:30 PM | #5 |
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Send the coil to Skip Haney and the distributor to one of the people here that sets them up on machines and learn from your mistake. If it now doesn't have any voltage at the coil, replace the resistor. It should give you lots of good service after this.
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05-20-2024, 10:06 PM | #6 |
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05-20-2024, 10:33 PM | #7 |
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Check and see, if the points were open, the ignition system should be OK, I think.
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05-20-2024, 11:06 PM | #8 | |
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Connect a set of jumper cables from a known good battery, (even 12 volt should be OK) pos to pos post, neg to neg post to get some juice flowing in to your dead battery. After 1/2 hour, dis connect the jumper cables and then hook your charger up and hopefully your battery will take a charge. .
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05-21-2024, 12:10 AM | #9 | |
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05-21-2024, 06:54 AM | #10 |
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Try getting one of these for the future, the bottom one is a Cole-Hersee switch made in the USA, they show up on eBay frequently. Avoid the Chinese Amazon versions. Mine is mounted through the firewall on my ’41 and I just reach under the dash to switch it off.
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05-21-2024, 07:22 AM | #11 | |
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05-21-2024, 09:47 AM | #12 |
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If your like me, if i forget the ignition switch i will sure forget the battery disconect switch. dont get old if you can help it.
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05-21-2024, 10:41 AM | #13 | |
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05-21-2024, 11:19 AM | #14 |
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Just removing the hot battery cable is the "SURE fire" way, OR "SURE NO-FIRE" way. AND fire with at least a "dual" meaning.
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05-21-2024, 12:44 PM | #15 |
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I did that once with a Model A "pop out switch" that didn't seat. It didn't toast the coil but burned the end off the wire attached to the coil. New wire end and it started right up.
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05-21-2024, 02:48 PM | #16 |
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I put a hard charge into the battery, I got lucky, the engine fired up and ran normal, still wiping the sweat off my head, as I had just had the helmet distributor completely gone through new everything and Skips coil,,,,thanks for everyone’s input!!,,,,oldbugger……too late I’m already there😝
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05-21-2024, 03:24 PM | #18 |
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your lucky day, enjoy!
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05-21-2024, 03:24 PM | #19 | |
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Note: If the battery is completely dead, a so called "smart charger" can not detect the state of the battery and will not start to charge it. Too smart for its own good. If the smart charger has a battery maintenance function (trickle charger), you can put that on for a few hours; that will put enough charge on the battery for the smart charger to work. Or you can do what I did an buy an old dumb charger (Western Auto) to get the totally dead battery started. |
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05-22-2024, 03:08 AM | #20 |
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I put my battery cutout switch under the battery tray on my 41.
You can't see it, and it has put me into a routine of a quick visual on the engine bay before and after taking her out. |
05-22-2024, 05:21 AM | #21 |
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I have a shutoff switch on my '32 seat riser.
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05-22-2024, 08:47 AM | #22 |
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As has been said before, if you forget to turn off the ignition you’ll probably do the same with a cutoff switch.
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05-22-2024, 08:51 AM | #23 |
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