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Subject: [Shop-talk] OT--car won't start
From: ejrussell at mebtel.net (Eric J Russell)
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:22:53 -0500
References: <36aaedd8.6afab.13460e09fa5.Webtop.49@charter.net>
First thing I would do is clean all electrical connections in the battery to
starter circuit. A bad connection (or more likely a number of slightly bad
connections) can cause the symptoms you describe. When you connect the
battery charger on 'start' mode you are still depending on some those
electrical connections.

The battery cables are usually most suspect but do them all - the ground
cable's connection to the chassis, the ground strap between the block & the
chassis & the positive cable's connection at the starter motor (do that one
with the battery disconnected!).

Eric Russell
Mebane, NC
http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell
----- Original Message ----- 

> I tried to start the car yesterday (approx 35 degrees at the time) and it
> was acting like the battery was down on charge: barely turning over. I
> hooked up my battery charger, put it on the "start" setting and tried
> again. I basically got the same result with only slightly faster turn over
> speed. The starter has always sounded good and the car has always started 
> since we got it.

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