Well Bill, it's our friend Lucas again.
Try this:
I assume you've cleaned the ground wire at the battery side.
Did you do the same at the engine side? There's a braided ground cable
propably at the lh side near the engine mount.
Then the two batteries have an interconnect cable. There also maybe a
similar contact problem. (or you only have one 12V battery).
You also should check the thick +12V connection on the starter.
Have a go - let us know.
Cheers,
Hans
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Saidel [mailto:saidel@crab.rutgers.edu]
Sent: dinsdag 27 juni 2000 15:12
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: what else to try?? small starting electrical problem
Man, am I glad I don't live in the South. 90 degree weather with 95-98%
humidity is not fun.
Ok, here's an annoying problem and what I did with it. I'm looking for
other ideas to try.
98% of the time, the car starts fine. No problem...runs fine...lots of fun.
But that other 2%, the key goes into the ignition, nothing...nadda...zip.
No sound. No alternator light. No anything.
So I think battery and wiggle the cables on the battery.
Starts right up.
So I removed the ground wire, cleaned it, used my Dremel to clean the
chassis area where it
connects, replaced bolts to remove old, rusty, original ones (is this a
modification?), tightened everything down, and
of course it starts fine. Wed. the no-go happened again. (You
mathematicians might note the 2% failure rate is rising.)
So I did the same with the cable to the plus end of the battery, and really
tightened that sucker.
If I assume I took care of the problem, it'll happen this evening.
Where else might I recondition connections (the starter motor??) and, ugh,
should I think the ignition???
Gremlins like this I could do without.
Bill
'76B, newly insured with Hagerty! (a shameless plug because it saved me the
price of the junked engine I'm looking for)
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