Mike,
Hallelujah!! ...Onward!
-g
At 1:29 AM -0800 2/7/01, Mike Maclean wrote:
>Well it's 1 AM but my starter pull cable heat problem is solved! Thanks
>to Peter C. and Gerard I can now pull on the starter cable until the
>battery dies and the cable stays cool!
>Peter's diagnostic procedure eliminated any problems there might be with
>the wiring, but Gerard zeroed right in on the problem. Gerard thought
>the switch was grounding when the starter was pulled. Gerard suspected
>the connection post of the starter was twisted internally and
>contacting the case of the starter grounding the circuit. After
>reconnecting the cable from the starter switch to the starter by looking
>at the sequence of washers, lockwashers, fiber washers and nuts on an
>original factory exploded drawing sent by Gerard, the cable now was
>much farther away from the case of the starter than before. Another
>problem was the inspection band that covers the openings in the starter
>case for access to the carbon brush springs was very close to the metal
>connector on the cable right where the inspection band clamping screw
>drew it together. The cable must have been shorting to ground with the
>combination of the inspection band clamping screw being close to the
>cable and having only one brass nut and one fiber washer holding the
>cable to the post.
> Thanks to everyone on the list with their suggestions for this
>puzzling repair. The only casualty was the original Lucas starter
>switch that I needlessly tore apart for inspection. I also found out
>the starter was almost shot and had to be rebuilt. So some good came of
>this. And what a great bunch on this list. Bandwidth, shmandwidth you
>guys and gals talk about anything you want. Were all friends here.
>Thanks again,
>Mike MacLean (one happy camper)-60 Sprite
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