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11-29-2005, 08:27 PM
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Car O'Holic
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Austin, Tx.
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Starter Solenoid
Today after eating lunch the truck didnt start, I went back after school and it started right up. When I tried at lunch it would just sit there and sping as if the starter was not ingageing. I heard that it is because it gets too hot, what is the best way to fix this? Has anyone done a remote solenoid install? and how did you do it? Or what did you do to sheild it from the heat of the headers?
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11-29-2005, 09:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Killingworth, CT. USA
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Re: Starter Solenoid
I would suspect the starter drive is shot. Some folks call it the "bendix". Bendix is a brand name for a starter drive. This is the gear/clutch assembly in the nose of the starter that engages into the flywheel. If you turn the key to start and the starter is spinning but not turning the engine over the solenoid is working.
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11-29-2005, 09:27 PM
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Car O'Holic
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Re: Starter Solenoid
but it worked later on in the day? and would that just require me buying a new starter?
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11-29-2005, 09:46 PM
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Re: Starter Solenoid
That part could work one time and not the next, but it would get worse as time goes on. Chances are if the drive is shot the rest of the starter may not be far behind. May as well replace the whole unit.
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1971 C10 swb stepside 350/700R4/3.73posi (retired as of 4/22/03) 1998 S10 short bed 2002 S10 Blazer 1942 Oldsmobile 1958 Massey Harris Pony 1951 Wife Killingworth, Connecticut May those who love us, love us, any of those who do not love us, may God turn their hearts. And if God is unable to turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we may know them by their limping. A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. |
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11-29-2005, 11:12 PM
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Senior Member
 Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Panola County Texas
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Re: Starter Solenoid
If the problem does not turn out to be your starter or solenoid PM and I will send you a picture of my remote solenoid. I had the heat problem, installing the remote solenoid did it for me.
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