Re: Almost Made It 2 Weeks!

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

I'm STILL confused : ) What do you mean by "dying"? Does the car actually
fire? How fast does it crank over, if at all (crank over meaning the
starter turning the engine, before it starts). So if you let go of the
key it will die instantly, meaning that it never started at all. Or
meaning that it fires every once in awhile and the starter is required to
keep it turning over? If the starter cranks over fine, then you should
look to fuel or spark for your problem.
	Good luck!
	-Josiah
	PS One of the small wires to the starter may be for the voltage guage, I
don't know, but one of them is to activate the solonoid. It pulls the
starter gear into position and then pulls power from the large red wire
attached to the starter with a 13mm nut to actually turn the motor over.

On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 15:16:42 -0700 "Norm Tallant" <takhisis@ix.netcom.com>
writes:
>> Your message makes me hesitant to reply, because I'm not sure what 
>you
>> mean by everything. What do you mean that if you hold the key all 
>the way
>> it will start but eventually die, otherwise it just won't start? 
>Don't
>> you always have to hold the key all the way (to the start position) 
>to
>> make it start? The starter isn't supposed to engage until the 
>"start"
>> position, which is all the way clockwise, and stops as soon as you 
>let go
>> of the key. Do you mean the engine turns over, or that it actually 
>fires
>> and starts, and then dies?
>
>My meaning is that unless I continue holding the key in the "start"
>position, the car will die instantly.  It will die anyway after about 
>10
>seconds, and do a short hiccup when I release the key.
>
>Suprisingly, most of my cables/connectors aren't really gunky or dirty 
>in
>any way, but we are about to disconnect and reconnect the battery, and 
>that
>failing, we'll try to jumpstart the car.  The previous owner of the 
>car put
>on really nice battery connectors and a nice one going to the 
>starter.
>They're brass looking and kind of shiny.  The positive terminal of 
>the
>battery connector has two or three wires going to different places, 
>mostly
>to two or three what look like relays mounted on the metal right by 
>the
>battery.  the connector on the starter also has a couple of extra 
>wires
>coming from it, presumably to guages in the car.  Off the top of my 
>head I
>have three vdo guages where the ashtray goes (one which I forget what 
>it is,
>a vacuum guage, and a volts guage.)
>
>Ah, how I wish I had a digital camera so I could just show you! ;-)
>
>All the best,
>-Norm
>
>
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