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Re: New Suburban Owner
Good score.
My 87 burb had the "shut off at the light dead" syndrome. Come to a stop in traffic and she'd die. Give her a few, wiggle a wire at the starter and away she'd go. Found my start circuit had multiple shorts to the solenoid. Heat shield was on originally and I left it off while pulling the starter in and out umpteen times trying to figure this out. I needed to get somewhere so I wired a fancy hot wire with a pushbutton and just made sure the key was switched to on before I started it and it started first try every time from there on after. Until it was wrecked.
I was going to run a SIS type wire #14AWG or so from the last good spot at the firewall to the solenoid and run it clear of the hot parts en route to the starter. Burbs get pretty hot in any season and the path for the wires by the manifold does them in. Good high temp insulated wires and some of that spark plug wire heat wrap.
Check them out if you can.
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