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It's BIG, Yellow and digs holes! JCB 3CX Project 8 is joining the Tractor Shed

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awemawson:
I sincerely hope that you are off the mark there, but I must admit that valve block on the JCB803 (which I assume you are referring back to?) did come to mind when I was trying to tighten the fitting !

awemawson:
A bit more trivia done this afternoon - the replacement Astray arrived and was fitted:

Is it a Merc, or is it a Mk1 Mondeo, or is it a JCB - answer - it is all three !

Just a case of sliding it in!

(Previous one wouldn't stay closed)

awemawson:
More trivia: The replacement starter battery arrived bang on cue. 'Enduroline' brand from Tayna Batteries on eBay. Over the years I've had probably a dozen starter batteries from them and they have been consistently good in terms of price and performance. This one comes with a 4 year warranty. And as ever with them they are delivered next day.

Quite a palaver getting the old one out and fitting the new - on the 3CX the battery is high up in the engine compartment below the windscreen, and both halves of the bonnet have to be removed having first removed the exhaust stack and the air input pre-filter, then the battery has to be lugged up over the loader arms - quite high up really and it's a heavy old lump.

The positive battery connector was covered in 'acid fuzz' and was on the point of disintegrating, which it did as I unscrewed its bolt. Cut off with a battery powered angle grinder and a lug crimped onto cleaned up cable and new post style connector fitted.

Always smear your lead acid battery terminals and connectors with petroleum jelly (Vaseline) to stop this happening.

russ57:
That's certainly better taken out of the starting lottery, cold weather or not.

Russ

-russ

tom osselton:
Wow maybe you didn’t need a new battery looking at the terminal, I had a friend once that had a dead battery but turned out to be oxide on the terminals preventing the battery from passing any juice to the starter.

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