Aaaanndd....by all means, check the battery under load, i.e. with someone
trying to start the car while you read a meter attached to the battery
terminals. Daughter had a Scirocco that wouldn't start one morning...read
twelve
volts and a bit at the battery until I opened the door and turned the dome
light
on. That's when the voltage dropped to a little less than 0.5 volts.
Point is, batteries can exhibit some fascinating, entertaining and
instantaneous failure modes and are Very Often the first thing to suspect. They
are
also, statistically, the most likely automotive component to fail. As
mentioned
previously, check the cables and terminals, too....wiggle things around...if
a cable looks a little fat near the battery terminal, it might be corroded
internally. This last is not uncommon.
Click-click is almost never a starter problem, IME.
Bill
70
other 70
In a message dated 6/24/2007 11:58:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
gsglasgow@comcast.net writes:
Also pull the battery cables and clean the connections and the battery
posts. It's surprising how little corrosion it takes to cause problems when
you're trying to pull several hundred amps to the starter.
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
www.gordon-glasgow.org
"The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
- Mahatma Gandhi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net]On Behalf Of RWM (Out of
> the Office)
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 9:24 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Sanity check - Bad starter?
>
>
> First principles: check for corrosion on the starter harness where it
> attaches to starter and ground.
>
>
>
> Andrew Murphy wrote:
>
> >All,
> >
> >I went out to take the car for a drive this morning and got the dreaded
> >click-click-click-click with no engine turning at all. So I pull
> out the meter
> >and check the battery across the terminals -it's fine. I have
> voltage at the
> >coil and can pretty much hear that the solenoid is trying to
> engage. I bought
> >this car back in February and noticed that the starter looked original.
> >
> >I am planning on ordering a gear reduction starter this week.
> Just checking to
> >see if the gear heads have a different opinion or idea.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Andrew Murphy
> >1966 1600
> >Down for now
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