Eric Hysteric wrote:
The electric will be my last part of the renovation when it's cold outside and cuddly warm inside the motorhome :-)
I turned the engine off after 30 second running to put the cables to the right position. After 1 minute i have heard a "click" inside the engine (i think the carburator but don't know exactly). Then i have tried to start the engine again but the engine didn't wanted to start.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm :-(
Maybe the automatic choke turns off, spark cold engine voltage is off or float needle valve is old and leeky and need to be replaced....
Do you know this behavior?
It was twenty below zero (F) outside when I rewired my '49 International Metro stepvan. The propane mobile home heater a previous owner had installed was hard to set low enough to keep the van from turning into a sauna. My girlfriend was helping and wound up stripping down to panties and bra ... the distraction caused the work to take a lot longer than necessary.
Off the top of my head, I'd say the 'click' you heard was a circuit breaker tripping or a tripped circuit breaker resetting.
Alternatively, it could be a piece of sheet metal cooling off and contracting.
I'm assuming it was a single 'click' ... loud enough to be heard but not loud enough to be truly disturbing. (The volume and nature of the sound would be helpful.)
As for your to-do list, there's some pitfalls in there. I'd recommend continuing to ask questions and trigger discussions before tackling each task. (The first purchase for someone buying an old motorhome should be a notebook, to keep track of their to-do list, among other things.)
