im stripping my rst at the moment cos after all attemps and money i could'nt get it started? ive bin building it from a shell and it was basiclly finished other than it starting, and when i was clearing the boot out i found a fuel cut off switch :-(, how annoying is this i feel soo pissed..........

 

it's the FIRST thing you should have checked

but i know how you feel, i spent 3 days trying to figure out why the prop on the 3 door wouldn't line up before realising it's offset square

 

yeh if only i would of checked that i would of had it one the road by now :-(.
ive done that before with the diff my m8 left me to put his rear beam and diff back on his car and i was there hours and when he turned up he did it straight away

 

gutted mate.

 

thing is, i took 3 days unpaid from work to sort it out

 

you built it from a shell and didnt notice the cut off switch?

 

I was thinking the same????

 

Hmm, suerly you would of checked the basics, fuel, spark...no fuel? why no fuel? trace fuel wires...ah cut off switch? lol we live and learn eh

 

seems stupid to me, I would have took it to someone that knows what there doing rather than break it

 

The RST never had a fuel cut off switch!!!Regards,Micky

 

cut off switch on mfi car? thats an efi thing mate

 

sorry but im afraid your stupidity deserves mocking. lets all point and laugh

 

never heard of a feul cut off switch on thembut i could be wrong?

 

Well if it was a late XR3i shell that the car has been built up from then it would have been EFi and that would explain the cut off switch

 

 

years ago me and a mate serviced my bosses car for some extra cash.

After changing the plugs, leads, oil and filters we tried to start it but nothing, just turned over and over.

Thinking i had put the leads on the wrong way round we spent the next few hours trying different things but nothing.

The we clocked the fuel cut of switch was unplugged, pressed it and it turned over but now was running like a pile of pants as we had switched all the leads round.

After much mucking around we finally sorted it.

Turns out my mate had been wiping down the bay and knocked the plug out of the bottom of the switch.

Last time we offered to service someone car.

 

we av all done it and still 2day i lol at myself...my mk5 rs2k had one by the pedals,and as i got on a roundabout,i accidently tripped it..felt like a right plum....

 

i def would have wanted to see fuel at the engine after building a car from a shell before i decided its fucked and broke it!!