Sounds like a bad connection on the battery terminals which is fairly
common. Get a battery terminal cleaner and clean the connectors and
terminals. This is routine maintenance that you should probably due at
least once every six months.
Another symptom will be a warm terminal where the actual bad connection is
right after you try to start the car.
The starter, being metal, will be grounded to the engine, which in turn,
should have grounds to the chassis (at the engine mount, you should have a
ground cable).
David
67 BGT
71 BGT
At 12:35 PM 8/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I wrote to the list about a month ago about starter problems. After some
>testing, it seemed that my starter motor was bad. (It wouldn't spin when
>12 volts were applied, just pop out the pinion.)
>Keep in mind that this problem just 'happened' one day during a rainstorm
>- it ran fine, and then boom.
>
>Since then I have acquired a new starter and solenoid, and put those in my
>72 mgb.
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>Now, when I turn the ignition key, I get a small pop and a little smoke
>from the batteries and nothing else ... no click in the relay or anything.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>I noticed that this new starter is made of what appears to be cast
>aluminum on the ends, where it bolts onto the frame. How is this starter
>grounded? Is cast aluminum conductive? Should I run a grounding wire from
>the negative starter terminal to the block?
>
>Thanks.
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