Fellow TR folks:
Basil just went over 90,000 miles and celebrated by giving me intermittant
starter
problems. 50% of the time when I turn the key, all works as it should; hot,
cold,
wet or dry. The other 50%, I get an extremely lethargic spin of the starter
motor,
which produces nothing useful. If I hold the key, eventually the thing spins
the
engine fast enough to do some good.
When this occurs, I notice the amp meter going seriously negative (-30/40A)
but
not "pegging". I am hoping that since this is intermittant and the motor is
not
drawing buckets o' amps, that maybe this is a manifestation of bad starter
motor
brushes. Is this just wishful thinking and I need a new starter motor or is
there some
hope for an easy fix? I have checked the easy/obvious high-current draw
connections and found them clean and tight.
Having never removed a starter from this or any of my previous TR (just
lucky, I guess) what is the easiest approach? Looks like removing the carbs
and intake
manifold would make things easier from above or is it easiest to do the whole
thing
from underneath the car?
Any and all comments welcome.
Cheers,
Barry W. Fox 65 TR4A CT51681L
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