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what else to try?? small starting electrical problem

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Subject: what else to try?? small starting electrical problem
From: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:12:03 -0400
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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