Starter cable route?

[wild_willy]

Cable connection to solenoid should have rubber boots fitted. Similar to these.
https://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/ ... ategory/32

[woodypup59]

Be careful with that electric wrench.

Its easy to overtorque the brass nuts & studs.

[AndyPen]

That bracket wasn't used on the Mk1 S. I'm guessing they used the same length cable as on the 850 etc which makes it seem a bit too long for the early S's with the different solenoid bracket used to stop the solenoid terminals shorting out on the wire coil inside the heater intake tube. The cable length should be 11.5"

Just to confirm, here is my wet 64 that is about as original a car as I know of. Not the greatest of pics but hopefully you can see that Bob's pic is accurate?

Note the huge ball of tape on the solenoid, immediately obvious when I puled the fresh air pipe back - where it had rubbed quite a bit with the solenoid at this angle.

Cheers

[Gary Schulz]

Thanks for the picture. I have no doubt that Bob's picture is accurate as usual! I technically would need to make my cable slightly longer in order to duplicate it exactly.