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Re: Click....nothing....d**n

To: robert.m.bailey@att.net
Subject: Re: Click....nothing....d**n
From: "O.K. Welty" <okwelty@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:01:21 -0500
Robert;

I will share in your embarassment if it is the battery connections. I once 
laid in a gravel parking lot in the rain changing a starter only to find the 
problem was bad battery connections. That is why they call it experience.

O.K. Welty III



>From: robert.m.bailey@att.net
>Reply-To: robert.m.bailey@att.net
>To: "Vic Hughes" <v.hughes@austarmetro.com.au>
>CC: "Bill Blue" <dablue@worldnet.att.net>, <alpines@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Click....nothing....d**n
>Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 13:09:11 +0000
>
>Thanks to everyone who has replied.  Yesterday I
>loosened the bolts on the starter and slid it out to
>make sure it wasn't binding in the ring gear.  When I
>tightened the bolts back down I added a nice big ground
>from one of the two bolts and ran it up to the strut
>that holds the heater valve. Nothing. So I buttoned the
>car back up and thought about it overnight.
>
>It isn't the bendex gear.  It isn't a ground from the
>starter.  I used a meter to make sure I was getting
>power to the starter.
>
>One thing I haven't done is simply turn on the lights to
>see if I have a good ground to the battery. I'll be
>embarrassed (but happy) if it is that.  The next has to
>be the brushes not making proper contact.  So back under
>the car I go tonight.  This is my everyday car so I have
>to get it going.
>
>Again thanks!  Many good ideas.
>
>Robert





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