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Ok, having got stuck into this again today and solved the mystery, someone had connected the battery to ignition feed cable to the wrong side of the leisure battery charge controller and therefore the van must have been starting off the leisure battery.......until it went flat! I only bought the van...

Update..... New ignition switch on, nothing. Just put the meter across the switch power input and it shows nothing today when earthed, if I put it across the switch input and the starter trigger output (at the ignition switch) it shows half a volt. Bizarre. I havent had time to think about or invest...

Hi Guys, Yes Mocki, all of the above checked, there is power to the the switch, whether its going through the switch when I turn key is another matter. Ignition switch should arrive today. What stumped me was that when, what I thought was a starter problem occurred, the ignition lights were working ...

Thank you for your time Ian

Cheers Ian, I have ordered a new ignition switch after further reading. Its just weird that the problem resolved after removing the starter motor, then re-occurred. Do you know if the ignition switch can cause the dash lights to stay off? Ive never seen this before. Its just weird they were working ...

Hello there. Great forum, it has been very useful up to now, thank you very much However, Im rather stumped today. I was having intermittent starter problems, dead basically, so whipped off, clean contacts etc and it worked for a while, then same thing again. I have also just rebuilt the carburettor...

Hello there. Great forum, it has been very useful up to now, thank you very much :) However, Im rather stumped today. I was having intermittent starter problems, dead basically, so whipped off, clean contacts etc and it worked for a while, then same thing again. I have also just rebuilt the carburet...