Trouble starting

[scirocco25 at gmail.com (Eric Person)]

The stock cables are pretty much junk, especially after 20 years.
Doing all main power to starter and alt. and all grounds only takes an 
afternoon and is well worth the time, even if it doesnt fix the problem.
It should be one of those mandatory things to do when you first buy the 
car.  Same goes for vacuum hoses.
The stuff at Parts Express from P3 is really cheap and on clearance I 
think, and would work great.  I think they have most terminals and 
connectors, as well as fat wire.  For 30 bucks or so you can redo all 
the main power cabling.
May not sort your starting problem out, but good to do anyways.

Eric


Jim Ruffi wrote:
> That one is important, but didn't help my problem at all.  There was major
> voltage drop to the starter, due to the main cable being old.  This ended up
> affecting the electronics, i.e. ignition.
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Eric Person [mailto:scirocco25@gmail.com]
>>Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 4:37 PM
>>To: scirocco list
>>Subject: Re: Trouble starting
>>
>>
>>The one from the coil to the intake manifold.
>>All of the grounds couldnt hurt to be replaced.  At least get from
>>battery -
>>to the chassis under the airbox and also from the battery - to the engine.
>>
>>On 7/10/06, Mike Smith <smithma7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Which ground cable?
>>>
>>>On 7/10/06, Jim Ruffi <sciroccos@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I had the same problem with my 88.  Spark stopped when the starter was
>>>>cranking and started right after I let the key back off of the cranking
>>>>position.  I could only get it to start if I cranked it 1 second at a
>>>
>>>time.
>>>
>>>>If I continued to crank it, it would flood, as there was no spark.  I
>>>
>>>had to
>>>
>>>>try to get it to fire off of that "single" spark that occured when I
>>>>released the key.
>>>>
>>>>I replaced the ground cable with a new one and the problem went away.
>>>>
>>>>HTH
>>>>
>>
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