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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Austin, TX
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Bad starter or bad battery?
For a couple weeks now, my truck intermittently wont start. You always get the prominent click from the starter, but only one. Up until this morning, after 2 or 3 attempts, it would crank over and start. At this point Im assuming its a weak battery as the ground and all other connections to the starter look good. It does fire up when I jump it...again...all signs point to a bad battery. I just wanted to get some input on the starter potentially going bad as Im driving this thing to Maine from Norfolk this weekend.
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
Take the battery and alt to a parts store. Got em to test both of mine and they were both bad...lol
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
looking at connections is a waste of time unless you happen have xray vision
takin of both battery cables then cleanin to bright and shiny all 5 ends is the right way to approach the problem for mere mortals
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
agreed....I just meant that the nut on the starter hadnt backed off creating a loose connection...Ive had that happen before. Ill probably take the battery and alternator to the store later and go from there
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
soooo battery and alternator are both good....turn the key, one good click from the starter and then nothing......ideas??
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
Contacts in the solonid worn or dirty?
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
Try whacking the starter with a rubber mallet or back of a screwdriver - if the starter fires after getting a solid smack, many times the contacts are worn to where they won't make a good contact and/or stick and enable the starter to engage. You may be able to replace just the contacts or rebuild the starter. Very easy and cheaper to rebuild. Plus a little self satisfaction of fixing it yourself, instead of replacing it.
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
Just replace the solonid... your baby deserves it. In a pinch you can turn the contacts in the solonid to provide a fresh surface.
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
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People have already suggested cleaning them. Try jumping the solenoid, but don't run yourself over. |
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Location: Austin, TX
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
tried smacking it with a rubber mallet....no luck. I grabbed a new starter from the parts store, but this thing is dead in the parking lot right now and Id really like to get it started once to get it pulled into my garage where I can work on it easier (ie without the snooty HOA getting pissed at me)
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
take both battery connection off and wire brush them
while battery is disconnected... take every ground wire off and wire brush and reconnect while battery is disconnected... take every accessable possitive cable off wire brush and reconnect, with battery disconnected, remove all starter solenoid cables... wire brush and reconnect. with battery disconected... remove the altinator charge wire and wire brush, reconnect. and then make sure you actually have a ground wire between the motor, the body and the chassis...
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
replaced the starter....the solenoid was bad....was only seeing .5 volts to the starter....for $44, it was a quick and fairly painless fix
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Re: Bad starter or bad battery?
True enough.
I had one that freewheeled in the truck, but worked fine on the ground. It got old putting it in and taking it out so I swapped it for a rebuilt one. When I was young I'd fix it, but... |
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