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[Bobkennedy]

Moving on from there to the fuses behind the air box and one of the fuse holders had degraded on the inside. Was a last ditch effort, the fuse seemed solid and the terminals weren’t going anywhere. Fuse out, broke the holder and one side was goosed. Put the spades straight into the fuse. Voila. Both lights function as they should

Feel a bit stupid now that it was something so silly

Think I’ll get another fused distribution block and replace all those inline blade holders too

Thanks for the help!

[Bat]

Hi,

It's almost always the fuses, not blown but poor connections. Pity it took Rover until the mpi to put a decent fuse box inside the car! Twenty years earlier would have been better...

Cheers 

[JonC]

Check and clean all the in-line fuses behind and to the right of the carb. Physically take em out and give it all a good clean inside I had same issue and one of them was the problem, looked fine visually but not good contact somewhere, good enough for volt meter to get a reading but failed under any load.

Edited by JonC, 02 August 2018 - 03:26 PM.