Mike,
do you have an extra starter or solenoid switch to swap out? I think I
would continue with process of elimination from there.
Gerard
At 6:08 PM -0800 1/28/01, Mike Maclean wrote:
>I'm at wit's end over this starter pull cable. It gets hot enough to
>change the temper of the metal cable and make it very brittle. After a
>couple dozen pulls to start the car it snaps off right at the connector
>that connects to the starter switch. I initially thought it was a bad
>ground. I changed the position of the ground from the bell housing bolt
>on the trans to the clutch slave cylinder. Still hot. My friend that
>sold me the car helps me work on it when I have a difficult problem and
>he encountered the same problem with it when he tried to start it and
>snapped the cable off again. He applied a huge jumper cable from an
>engine mounting bolt on the engine side of the rubber and the other end
>of it to the engine mounting bolt for the bracket on the frame, in
>effect another ground (engine to positive ground body). What is
>perplexing is you could pull on the connector (wire snapped off) and it
>was not hot! So, I thought the problem was solved. I stopped at Pep
>Boys on the way home and bought a universal woven copper ground cable
>about 8 inches long.
> Today I installed the ground cable where my friend had the jumper
>cable and sweat silver soldered a new bicycle cable into the starter
>pull button to finish the repair. I just pulled on it a couple of times
>with the ignition off and it got real hot just like before. Huh?
>Is the starter pull cable grounding on the instrument panel? Or, is the
>starter drawing too many amps? Is the small ground strap I just
>installed inadequate for the amount of amps flowing through the
>(defective?) starter? Is the starter solenoid (switch) defective?
> I don't know where to look first. Ahrrrrrrrrrrrg!!!!!!
>Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
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