Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Question on Mondial 3.2 electrics problem

[leo martinez (leomtz_4re]

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--- Steve Jenkins <steve [at] stevejenkins.com> wrote:

> Sounds a lot like the hot-start issue on the TRs. If
> so, then it's the
> solenoid being heat soaked.
> 
> Bypass the solenoid with a hotwire switch, and when
> this happens, you can
> turn the key on, then hotwire the car in the engine
> bay. I've wired a switch
> in my 512TR to make it easy.
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Britt2Asa [at] aol.com [mailto:Britt2Asa [at] aol.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:21 AM
> To: Steve Jenkins
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: [Ferrari] Question on Mondial 3.2 electrics
> problem
> 
> 
> I am travelling with a friend to Silverstone in his
> 3.2 Mondial cab. After
> an 
> hour of fast motorway travel we stop for a coffee.
> 10 minute stop and his
> car 
> will not start. After sitting for 50 minutes it
> starts right up.
> 
> This is not a knew problem but he cannot seem to fix
> it. When it is hot it 
> will not crank. It will push start immediately
> though.
> 
> Starter was rebuilt last month (thought to be the
> problem but obviously
> isnt)
> 
> Only happens when HOT, not when driving for 15
> minutes around town. It has
> to 
> be a fast run. After sitting for 50 min or so
> (cooling down?) it will crank.
> 
> I could feel and here both fuel pump relays and the
> starter relay 
> throwing/clicking when he turned the key. All the
> lights came on to the dash
> (though the 
> cooling fans didnt fire up, not sure if this is
> important or not). You turn 
> the key and just get nothing. No "click" from the
> starter that I could here
> but 
> as I said the relays under the front bonnet were all
> clicking away.
> 
> Anybody got any idea what else to check/replace? I
> would like to help him 
> out. Where else in the Mondials wiring would heat
> soak cause a problem?
> 
> Many thanks
> Britt
> 
> BR in the UK
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