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Sorry guys, Just to clear a few things up. The solenoid i'm refering to is just the push-start button (to the left of the battery if looking at it from the front). The battery was totally dead as if I had left the lights on although everything was off when parked up. The booster box is a Snap - On b...

Also forgot to add,

its a pull start (instead of the key start) if that makes any difference?

Tried disconnecting the starter (the big black cable going to the starter from the solenoid) and then supplying the starter with direct voltage but there was still an arc. With the starter motor lead disconnected from the solenoid I again applied voltage to the battery terminals (one to the body and...

EDIT: Right, had a little go at fault finding.

As it seemed like a major short circuit (was causing the circuit breaker in the booster box to trip) I decided to first disconnect the dynamo & the starter and connect everything up but it still proved to be there.

Hi there, I've got a '64 Morris Minor 1000 (completly standard) and have done the positive to negative earth swap as according to the instructions on this forum a week or so ago. One note I must make when I was changing the polarity on the dynamo was that even after a few strikes it was still produc...