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Re: Starting Problem

To: RossOvercash <jroverca@tiac.net>
Subject: Re: Starting Problem
From: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 22:18:29 -0600
Has anyone yet suggested to rebuild the bloody starter?

RossOvercash wrote:

> Get in car insert key in ignition switch turn key, idiot ligth comes on fuel
> pump is working, but guess what?  The starter doesn't turn over.  A clicking
> noise from the relay next to the fuse box is it.  Fiddle with the key a few
> times and if I'm lucky the car will turn over.  If I'm not I lie down on the
> passengers side and jump the terminal from the solenoid to the hot wire from
> the battery an bingo she turns over.
>
> Now the Prince of Darkness has got me here.  I realize this is something
> electrical, ie not the starter motor per se. (Thank God, I've gone through
> enough of those).  But I can't for the life of me figure it out.  It
> happened again this morning.  I started the car warmed it up a bit pulled
> out of the drive, parked the car, came back 5 minutes later and guess what
> you got it no start.
>
> So if any one has a brilliant or not so brilliant suggestion I will be happy
> to take them...

 --
Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6, '61Elva(?)
"The biggest thing that happened to the six-cylinder engine in 20 years was the
seven main-bearing crank" -- John Z. DeLorean, Car Life, 1966



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