VicS
Well-Known Member
Managed to get the engine running using my bodged jump-lead starter set up (see previous post), then stopped it and set about tracking down the wiring problem. The wiring is a bit of a bird's nest, with some its relating to one era of Bukhs, and some to a later arrangement, plus some extra mystery wires thrown in.
It was getting too dark to see the colours properly, so I set about trying to find the not immediately apparent fuse box (there should be one fuse in the starter wire, one in another wire), rummaging around behind the engine bulkhead from the quarter berth. No luck, so I gave up and started trying to make sense of the fuel lines while I was lying there backwards and upside down.
Following one of the fuel lines I came to the back of a switch, felt round to the front of it and there was a button. Pressed it, and the starter lurched into life! (And nearly frightened the life out of me in the process!)
It would seem that the start position on the engine key has been replaced at some point (presumably having become problematic) with a start button, not on the engine switch panel, but out of immediate sight just inside the quarter berth nearby.
That still leaves one or two mysteries about the wiring, but I now have a functioning starter, starter button and engine.
Thank you all for your help. Much appreciated.
It does not explain why the volts apparently collapses when you turn the key switch to the start position.
There may be an innocent reason but there may be a gremlin to be evicted!
