Check the battery cables to make sure they are tight as well as the all
cables going to the starter.
...Art
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bill Saidel wrote:
> I am looking to the wisdom of the list. After not starting my year old '76B
> since November, my blood has begun to boil and it is time. I had the
> battery recharged, rehooked it to the car, and turned the key. My newly
> installed radio worked right. (Thanks to the list, of course.) The gas pump
> and the lights went on appropriately, but Woody the woodpecker made a
> horrid noise under the hood.
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> The starting motor or the solenoid is fairly sick.
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> My questions:
> Why would a layoff of 3 months lead to a problem not encountered last year?
> How does one tell the difference between a sick solenoid or a sick starter?
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> Starting was not one of the problems I encountered last year.
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> TIA,
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> Bill
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> of reality, there is a small gap of the unimaginable."
> Milan Kundera - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
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