Scottish Elises

Hey guys, I'm a bit stumped.... me and my dad have been toiling away on my old S1 doing the head gasket for the last week or two -

So in brief-

Mechanical work all done

turn the key - Stack flashing like it's the Blackpool illuminations

The Stack calms down and I hear the pump working and various other familiar noises

so try to start - nothing happens =

struggling to charge the battery, it seems like the alarm is trying go off constantly!?



So in not so brief-

Everything is put back together, I reconnect the battery (having previously disarmed the Cobra 6422 alarm then disconnected battery) I disabled the alarm, sounded fine (clicks and buzzes) but no flashing indicators. Turn the key so the dash lights up - whole thing flashing away like I've crashed the car. We put on a new fuel filter so my dad held the disconnected fuel pipe expecting some fuel to come out - that didn't happen so reconnected it.

Tried starting, nothing happened.

To complicate things, at this point I realize the battery (which is a dry battery) has different characteristics from normal ones. At first it seemed fully charged but after a few minutes I could tell it was rapidly losing power. So I put it on charge, 'hopefully' before the alarm lost power.

Now the strange thing is, while it's charging I'm hearing the alarm clicking inconsistently. Keep in mind I have the siren disabled - so the indicators normally tell me what it's doing. But they aren't coming on even if I switch them on with the stalk. Fuses all seem fine. Headlights do come on.

So it's still charging and the last time I turned the key it was just a repeat of events with the crazy flashing Stack.



Thoughts!? (besides sticking it on a truck and sending it off to a garage)

cheers

Scott

Panic over! The wires to the engine reset button were corroded through but I think all it was, was the battery. I was just unfamiliar with the way the dry battery loses power, still... I've never seen the Stack go nuts like that before.

Car started, sounded about as good a K-Series ever could!

Result! Good effort on the re-build

Cheers mate,it was satisfying to do but I was pretty nervous on the Sunday night - hence the post - so it sure was a relief to hear it start up!

Well done, did you paint your avatar picture? Looks nice

smee wrote:Well done, did you paint your avatar picture? Looks nice

Cheers, yea I did, it was based on a retro car picture I saw somewhere years ago.


scott

Scottd wrote:

smee wrote:Well done, did you paint your avatar picture? Looks nice

Cheers, yea I did, it was based on a retro car picture I saw somewhere years ago.


scott

Good effort

I have been thinking of doing some Lotus paintings/art for a while... well a few years come to think of it. If only I had more spare time (in fact some spare time would be nice!)

Good job, looks great

My S1 has some strange dash lights and want to try your fix. Can you please tell me what/where the "Engine reset button" ..is that the inertia switch? Or something else