troubleshooting no start
- chachi
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- dingo
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Re: troubleshooting no start
isolate your issues...rig up a 12V source to test and see if the pump runs. same with starter.
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- hambone
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Re: troubleshooting no start
Clean the slip-on terminal on the starter.
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- RSorak 71Westy
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Re: troubleshooting no start
The entire vehicle is ground. The neg battery cable should end with one end firmly bolted to a clean spot on the body...... Then there should be some kind of ground strap from the body to the engine/transmission as the mounts are rubber and you dont want the speedometer cable or the clutch/throttle cable trying to ground the starter.
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Rick
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- dingo
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Re: troubleshooting no start
i know that you can use use a meter 'inline' when reading Amps, but not when reading Volts
i hooked the fuel pump wire directly to the battery, with the VOM inline. it showed 12v going through, but it didn't come on.
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" Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- ruckman101
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Bad starter? When mine went out, so did my headlights. This was while I was driving. Made it home without the headlights, bus running fine, but next day, nada action at the turn of the key. Dead Jim. Eventually got it towed to a shop, and the starter was replaced. Good to go.
Weird, replaced that starter a year or so ago, but remember no details about the failure that led me to the task. I better lay off something.
neal
Weird, replaced that starter a year or so ago, but remember no details about the failure that led me to the task. I better lay off something.
neal
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- Amskeptic
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Re: troubleshooting no start
If anyone has recently installed the starter, there are a number of terminals at the starter post that is also home to the battery cable. One is a big red wire that ... runs the entire front of the car.chachi wrote:rereading my first post, i guess i should have been more clear. i get nothing at all when turning the key - total electrical system nothingness.
If the entire car is so dead that even bridging the starter posts is a pointless exercise, then main battery cables need to be checked, especially if you have bolt-on terminal ends at the battery.
Colin
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- chachi
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- bretski
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Re: troubleshooting no start
Correct. Key on, car in neutral, please. Use your crappiest long screwdriver...it'll get cooked.chachi wrote:so if i bridge the two large terminals on the starter, i should get something...correct? not the small tab and one of the posts...
that's what i gleaned from muir, anyway..
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