My '65 truck, registered as a '66, has a solenoid.
Truck was pretty stock and unmolested when I got it
with very low mileage. Might have been added by the
PO but had the foot starter switch. The foot switch
went tits up soon after I got the truck and so did my
spare. Replaced the foot switch with a push button
switch mounted on one of the dash panels. Way easier
to actuate and about 20% of the cost of the Rover
switch. The Lucas starter solenoid also gave up
somewhere along the line and replaced that with one
from a Ford truck.
Aloha
Peter O.
--- Rick Grant <rickgrant@telus.net> wrote:
>
> David Scheidt wrote
> >Positive ground Land-Rovers haven't got a solenoid.
> They've got a push
> >button switch.
>
> I didn't know that.
>
> But then, what is the device on my firewall to which
> the battery power runs
> and a bunch of other wires lead off?
>
> It looks very much like the device on page 135 of
> the Haynes Manual, only
> mine doesn't have a manual ignition contact.
>
> Until I changed it a few years ago, my machine had
> always been positive ground.
>
>
>
>
>
> Rick Grant
> 1959 SII 88"
> VORIZO
>
> Calgary Alberta
> www.rickgrant.com
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