Please Any Ideas??

[SeaComms]

Check the earth connection bolts AND the integrity of the earth cable - easy to do, grab a digital multimeter and stick one end on the neg batt terminal and the other on the motor and turn on the headlights. Multimeter should not read more then a few millivolts. Repeat with one connection on batt neg and the other on the body.

If you are getting not enough current to turn the starter and dull lights even with a set of jumper leads connected you are loosing power through a high resistance somewhere in a main connection to the battery - from experience its usually an earth.

EDIT: just realised I already said same above!! Oh well, I said it again

[Deezelweazel]

New batteries are no guarantee- you never know how long the core was sitting on the shelf.
Did you do a load check or just checking the voltage?
Out of a sudden the starter won't work anymore???

[Steve F]

Sounds like a bad earth from battery to body to me or the connection from battery to main fuse box.

[Pantsly]

Thanks for all the replies. It was a real doosie, found three connectors that were corroded, a bad connection on the main lead off the battery to the fuse box two earths had bad corrosion plus two wires running to the distributor had rubbed through and were shorting on each other.To make matters worse my oil pressure sender is leaking oil into the starter motor (took it off cleaned all the oil off the armature) cleaned all the connectors, recharged the battery and put the dissy to about where it was from memory, bang up she fired played with the timing to the point where I could get a soilid idle. Drove out to my mechanics so he could check the timing ( I had it about half a degree retarded!! ) Running like a dream again, exhaust should arrive this week and then its off to the dyno to have the Motec computor fitted and see what she can put down....to fit the supercharger or not now?, depends how it goes with a decent tune in it I suppose.Thanks again all.

[amlav]

Didn't you mention in your first post that you checked connections ???
Next logical thing after bad contacts is battery.
Cheers ,
Andrei

[Pantsly]

Mate how many connectors do you recon are under the bonnet I checked the main ones to the battery, coil and distributor. The ones I found corroded (the second check)were in the loom except the main positive running into the fuse box which actually looked fine until seperated . Logically I checked the battery first and it was never the problem. (as stated)

Cheers Ant