Hi Vic,
I was having this problem a while back and it turned out to be a bad earth.
Is your engine-to-body earth strap nice and secure?
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Hughes [mailto:hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, 20 July 2001 10:04
To: alpines@autox.team.net
Subject: Starter Motor
So now my starter motor has decided to go slow. It still cranks, but
even with the plugs out (no compression) its slow and with plugs in it
makes about one engine revolution per second which is nowhere near
enough to start a dead cold engine in 8 degrees Celsius weather. The
battery is new and fully charged and even when I hooked up a booster
battery it still won't crank faster. It's not the battery-to-starter
cable as I tried boosting direct to the starter switch with no
improvement. Any thoughts?
My guess is that the starter motor needs to be rebuilt (hell, why not,
almost everything else has been). This looks relatively easy in the S F
Page manual. Has anyone done it themselves and if so what are the
pitfalls?.
BTW, if anyone has my email address in their address books, please note
that it has changed in the last few weeks.
Thanks in advance
Vic
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