My 505 has been sat, nose in the air, since around August while I attended to various issues. Today I finally got it all back together, filled the coolant, reinstalled the battery ready for a test run, key in, turned once - no dash lamps, dead as. The lights come on with the stalk switch (as does the buzzer to let you know they're on). Fiddling with the switch at one moment it connected & even cranked the starter - but not enough to make it go. Now its dead again. Taking off the trim under the steering col. there's a four-terminal socket close to the ig. switch barrel - the top terminal has 12.5V (matches the reading across the battery) to earth. The 4x plug that connects to this socket (wires appear to go into ignition switch) when multimetered has low-resistance connection reading from the top to all three other terminals - no matter what position the key is placed in! so I'm not understanding what the key is supposed to be doing - I'd imagined the other three terminals activating dash lamps / tachymetric relay / starter solenoid and only going "live" when key turned. Since it was all working before its long layoff I'm suspecting dirty / corroded contacts as most likely reason? is there a way of getting contact cleaner to reach the innards of the ignitionswitch? (tried squirting some down the keyslot but not convinced its going where needed.
Thanks,
Rob
Thanks,
Rob