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Starter Problem - "A Feel Like a Moron" book.

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Topic: Starter Problem - "A Feel Like a Moron" book.

Posted By: Shane H. (Mi)
Subject: Starter Problem - "A Feel Like a Moron" book.
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 5:57am

Okay, I broke down and took my 6v starter to my buddy at the starter shop because I, for the life of me, could not figure-out the problem. But let's go back to the beginning.

Went to use the WC, hit the starting rod, dead. Threw the charger on come back the next day, dead. Time to go on the hunt. Of course before getting out the meter I cleaned all my terminals, made sure the battery was charged, cleaned the 'wedge-bolt/starter-bolt' and the nice big terminal I have there. NOTHING.

Maybe it's the cables, they're new; had my buddy Denny at the starter/alternator shop make'em for me...nice large cables. It's not them.

Ever use a machine screw to mount your start switch that it juuust long enough to go thru the casing and cause a dead short? I did.

Live and learn! Just a way of pressure-checking my own cooling system I guess!

-Shane'r

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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 6:43am

Who Me make a mistake ? No never , LOL least not that i tell the world about.

Had a Olds with coil mounted on manifold , mounted it in another place, bolts that held coil were through bolts, I never put them beck , vacuum leak and would not run right ? No never happened .. LOL

Or the time I used the field coil from another Delco starter to replace the fields on my IH starter , dang thing would not start, who knew the starter field coils would cause starter to turn the wrong direction.

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Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something.
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

Posted By: weiner43
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 7:13am

If I wrote about all the stupid things I`ve done, it would fill a 2 volume book.

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God bless our troops and the United States of America.

Pick your rut well, you may be in it a long time.

Posted By: Bob-Maine
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 8:18am

I made a mistake once. It was on a math problem in the 5th grade :>)

Bob@allisdowneast

Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 8:23am

i THOUGHT i WAS WORNG ONCE BUT i WAS MISTAKEN

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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"

1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start

Posted By: Roger Nolin
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2010 at 9:23pm

I don't have to write a book about all of my mistakes, I just ask the wife. She has a good memory!< id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" ="">

Posted By: Ron(WA)
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2010 at 1:40pm

Wow! That one would be real hard to find or to prevent!

Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 07 Oct 2010 at 2:08pm

Yep, them kind just make you scratch your head!

It itches because you pulled all your hair out trying to figure it out!

Oh wait, Shane'r that don't apply to you! :)

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