Hi guys. Tonight somethin srange was goin on with the HQ van. I had dull headlights, no indicators or dash lights, barely working wipers, the stereo kept flicking on and off and the temp gauge was peaked out. It seems like an earth leak or a short or something, but the strange thing is everything worked perfectly when the clutch was pressed in... Any idea what would cause this?

Also check your motor to body earth lead (usually at the back and quite often looks like the pick-up braid on a Scalextrics car). Maybe when you press the clutch in, your rat-trap bends and makes contact with the motor thereby earthing it out to the body.

The temp needle moving in sync with the indicator is a common sympton of an earth issue.

What the Kev and Dave said about the clutch pedal and rat trap makes a lot of sense too.

Also check that the loom to the floor mounted dipper switch is not bein