Wolseley 16/60 starting problem

Thinkingaboutit · 11-10-2009 09:18PM #1

The car starts from cold with the key. When it gets warm, it will not start with the key. I turned the armature shaft on the starter motor, that had no effect, and perhaps made it harder to start with the key. It starts easily with the handle whether warm or cold. I think the starter motor would have to be taken from underneath the car, and be dismantled and reconditioned. I hope not as I don't have a ramp to work under the car.

1948Wolseley · 11-10-2009 09:30PM

Can you hear the starter solenoid click when you turn the key?

Thinkingaboutit · 11-10-2009 09:38PM

Yes, a click or similar noise, and if I put a test lamp between a battery terminal and one part of the solenoid, the light comes on when the key is turned. I had a problem with the solenoid and I replaced it recently. The motor factors near the Square Tallaght (forget the name) ordered it. The solenoid is the same as on the Mini.

1948Wolseley · 12-10-2009 05:20PM

Unfortunately that sounds like your starter is acting up. You could:

(a) Keep using the handle

(b) Take it to a mechanic and have him clean up the starter for you, or

(c) Try taking it out and fixing it yourself. Would you be able to get at it if you took the distributor off first? (I'm not sure if this would help with your car, all I know is that it works on an A-series. Just be sure to mark the position of the distributor before you take it off.)

Thinkingaboutit · 13-10-2009 12:18AM

I'll see if I can take out the starter. I might let a garage sort it as it's a small enough matter, that could be dealt with alongside a problem with corrosion on one wing, which I can't solve myself.

Thinkingaboutit · 23-10-2009 02:26PM

The problem seems to have solved itself. It was left for three days in my garage. It starts with the key from cold and when warm. I had turned the armature shaft a few days ago, but that seemsed to have no effect. It works now. I might look at the starter some time.

bjak · 06-11-2009 10:06PM

To begin with, the starter motor is probably not the problem if the issue is starting when hot. I suggest that it may be fuel vaporisation (being heated by the exhaust manifold) or a problem in the carburettor. Try to divert the fuel line as far as possible from the exhaust manifold. If you have added a fuel filter immediately before the carb that might be the problem - relocate nearer fuel pump? With the carburettor, is there enough oil in the dashpot? - use sewing machine oil not engine oil. There is a pin on a spring type mechanism on the underside of the carburettor, press it up and release a few times to make sure its free.

Wolseley 16/60 starting problem

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