After not touching the car over the weekend, I had another look this morning and consulted all the resident experts. I again tried to turn the motor over via the crankshaft pulley without the plugs in. Very difficult to get it to turn very far at all although it does move. My resident expert suggested that the problem was possibly in the ring gear area:- either the ring gear was broken & coming off or the broken tooth may have caused some damage & the flywheel was catching. Good advice!
So I jacked the car up reasonably high so that I could get a good look at the ring gear through the starter motor hole. When I tried to turn the motor, it actually did & went the complete cycle. What the f---? My advisor suggested that the piece of broken ring gear may have lodged in a position where it was catching & by jacking the car up it has dislodged. Sounds good to me & the best part is that the motor turns over without any problems. I spent some time trying to get a magnet behind the flywheel without a lot of success so the best solution is to wheel it into the sick bay until I work out my next move.
Here are some pics of the broken tooth (the pics are a bit sideways).
I have another house maintenance project on at the moment so I swapped the cars about so that my white XL is available and for the meantime I will just rest the green Capri. There is no real alternative other than replacing the ring gear and I will have to be sufficiently motivated to do that.
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