Sod's law

[blue_toaster]

I'm on my way home from work in my Westie today when I stopped to fill up. Paid, came out to find a group of teenagers looking over the car, got in and it wouldn't start.

After a bit of looking the ignition wire connection had fallen off the starter solenoid. Not the wire had come off the connector but the whole connector had fallen off.

After a bit of frigging I taped the wire against the connection and got it started much to the amusement of the impressed teenagers who watched me fix a broken down car with sticky tape.

The sod's law bit is that I need to set of at 5am tomorrow to Simpsons exhausts to get a new silencer fitted.

Still, I got home, raised the car, took off the started motor, pondered at how the entire connector fell off, soldered it back on with a bigger blob of solder than it had originally, put it all back together and job done. It took less than 90 mins.

I'm pleased at the ease of doing this on the Westie compared with a tintop, much easier job than it could of been so it's ending well.

However I still can't work out how the small connector fell off. It looks like it should be fastened onto a small bolt that has sheared in the past and a connector fastened on with a blob of solder. Is that right? or are all the MT75 starter motors like that?

[RedditchJay]

think they are mate