Re: Starting Problem

["Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>]

If it was OK at the battery *connector* but not at the fusebox then the
probable location of the bad connection is at the starter solenoid.  On a 73
the brown wires are on the same stud as the battery cable but I have had a
bad connection between them even though the nut was tight giving the same
symptom you describe.  Some time before that the browns were on spades which
were internally connected to the battery cable stud and these are even more
likely to give bad connections.

PaulH.

----- Original Message ----- 
> There
> are 12 volts at the pos terminal on the coil until the starter is
engaged --
> then all juice is gone until the starter is disengaged again.  We tried
> jumping directly from a brown wire at the fuse box with no change.  The
only
> way we could get it to work is to jump directly from the positive on the
> battery.