Re: More starting problems

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

Sounds like cables to me Daun. Have you checked the resistance between the 
battery and the engine on the pos. or neg. side?


>From: Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: More starting problems
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:15:36 -0800 (PST)
>
>I've had a problem with my '85 ever since I bought it
>almost a year ago.  The problem is the way the starter
>operates.  Sometimes it will turn over just fine, but a lot
>of times it will b-a-r-e-l-e-y turn over for 2-3
>revolutions, THEN crank at normals speed.  I've installed a
>couple of different (used) starters over the past year, and
>that at first would seem to cure the problem, then within a
>day or two it'd go back to it's usual ways so I'm pretty
>convinced that the starter's not the problem.
>
>Any thoughts?  Positive and / or negative battery cable?
>I'm guessing it's not the battery itself as the symptom
>persists in all seasons, and it will sometimes crank just
>fine.
>
>
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