SurfBeat
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starter problem
I was out on the River all day and all of a sudden the #@^% 92 GTX stopped. I pushed the start button and all I got was ah THUD noise.
Oh, oh, I figured the insidious "water injection" had entered my life.
When I pulled the plugs to check for that problem, the engine cranked over a few times to reveal that was not my problem.
Hmmm, maybe the battery is the problem. Checked that, 12.5 volts. That is not my problem.
I next put a starter relay across the solenoid termninals and all I got was the THUD noise.
I guess my next test is to pull the starter. Am I on the right path?
When I pull the starter, can I bench test it by running the neg and pos terminals to the starter and if it does not crank, that tells me my starter needs replacing or rebuilding?
That is the process I learned years ago working on my 56 Nomad when multi-meters were not used by shade tree mechanics. Since my 92 Doo does not have all the bells and whistles like the new ones, I figure my old way of doing things should work just fine.
What cha think?
I sure would like to get this thing running by sundown.
When I depressed the starter button on my 92 GTX all I got was a THUD!
When I shorted the solenoid, the THUD persisted.
I pulled the Starter, ran battery cables (from Doo) to the pos/neg studs on the Starter and the Starter rapidly twirled, indicating {to me} that the Starter is okey dokey.
Where do I go from here?
I'm off to the dealer to pick up a Starter gasket and hopefully by my return someone will have replied to this Thread so I can keep troubleshootin.'
I was out on the River all day and all of a sudden the #@^% 92 GTX stopped. I pushed the start button and all I got was ah THUD noise.
Oh, oh, I figured the insidious "water injection" had entered my life.
When I pulled the plugs to check for that problem, the engine cranked over a few times to reveal that was not my problem.
Hmmm, maybe the battery is the problem. Checked that, 12.5 volts. That is not my problem.
I next put a starter relay across the solenoid termninals and all I got was the THUD noise.
I guess my next test is to pull the starter. Am I on the right path?
When I pull the starter, can I bench test it by running the neg and pos terminals to the starter and if it does not crank, that tells me my starter needs replacing or rebuilding?
That is the process I learned years ago working on my 56 Nomad when multi-meters were not used by shade tree mechanics. Since my 92 Doo does not have all the bells and whistles like the new ones, I figure my old way of doing things should work just fine.
What cha think?
I sure would like to get this thing running by sundown.
When I depressed the starter button on my 92 GTX all I got was a THUD!
When I shorted the solenoid, the THUD persisted.
I pulled the Starter, ran battery cables (from Doo) to the pos/neg studs on the Starter and the Starter rapidly twirled, indicating {to me} that the Starter is okey dokey.
Where do I go from here?
I'm off to the dealer to pick up a Starter gasket and hopefully by my return someone will have replied to this Thread so I can keep troubleshootin.'
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