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To: Ghost of SVR4

A friend of mine had the same thing happen but in her case it was a Ford Explorer. Turned out to be the starter. She said that her mechanic said sometimes in a bad starter the rotor or whatever stops on an open wire and no contact is made somehow. A slight jolt or hitting it with a hammer would move it just enough to make that contact. It would be fine for weeks and then the same thing happened. Replaced starter and it ran no problem again. (Sorry for the long post but thought it would help).


16 posted on 10/24/2015 10:24:03 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

Thanks for the info...


34 posted on 10/24/2015 10:40:50 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: SkyDancer

Years ago I had a beater car with a bad ignition switch. It wouldn’t pass enough current to engage the solenoid. I got pretty adept at going in there with a piece of metal (a socket, actually) to bridge the contacts to get the starter to run. Only problem was I had to go in from below while lying on the ground.

Eventually, I put a switch on the dashboard to do the trick which lasted until the car went to the junkyard.


74 posted on 10/24/2015 12:43:46 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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