Darrell,
First thing I do when I have a problem like yours is turn on the
headlights and try to start the car. If the lights go out, you have a
bad connection at the battery. Sounds like your problem is a poor
connection. Could be post to connector or connector to conductor. If
you have replacement cable ends on your cables, take the end apart and
clean it. It just had this happen on my Mustang.
Good luck,
Jay Welch Abington, MA
1971 TR6 Project, 1973 TR6 Driver
1989 Mustang GT donor car aching to be a FFR Roadster
Secretary, Cape Cod British Car Club @
http://clubs.hemmings.com/capecodbritish/
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:32:53 EDT TR250Driver@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 8/20/02 9:33:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> vze2846b@verizon.net writes:
>
>
> > Sometimes if the battery has seen better days, it will behave as
> you
> > describe. There is enough juice to fool you into thinking it is
> OK, but
> > not
> > enough to both engage and spin the starter. Try a different
> battery and
> > see
> > if it helps.
> >
> > Peter
> > '68 TR250
> >
> >
> >
>
> Peter,
> I just took the battery out of the TR6 which I drove today and it
> makes no
> difference. However, during this process I tried starting the TR250
> with the
> lights on and the solenoid clicked twice and the lights went out.
> Now what
> is that? I know this battery is good because it starts the Six
> fine. The
> 250's lights are sometimes coming on real dim then coming to life,
> real
> bright, all of a sudden. The positive terminal is real hot. This is
> a weird
> one. Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> Darrell
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