my '74 is like that..try jiggling the gear shift lever before you turn
the key..sometimes this works..sometimes not...i have learned to live
with it...
kenyon wills wrote:
>I replaced the starter in my 1973 with a chain parts-store "heavy duty"
>unit. -Lifetime warranty!
>
>When the car is stopped after a prolonged run on the open road of 20
>minutes or more, the car will refuse to start until the engine
>compartment/block has cooled significantly, maybe 40 minute-worth. This
>does not happen in stop & go around town stuff, and the starter works
>strongly and well otherwise.
>
>When the symptom occurs, the relay on the solenoid can be heard to lightly
>click, but no physical movement of any sort occurs in the starter. No
>audible click as heard when the battery is low, so I'm assuming that the
>entire thing's expanded so far that it is just seized up. Works great
>upon cool-down immediately after.
>
>I'm suspecting that the starter is not defective, but is being exposed to
>too much heat from the non-stock exhaust pipe that runs within inches of
>the starter.
>
>Before I go and try to fiddle around with fabricating a sheet-metal heat
>sheild or buying heat insulating wrapping for the pipe, is there something
>that I'm not understanding here?
>
>=====
>Kenyon Wills
>San Lorenzo/SF Bay Area
>
>196o Imperial LeBaron - America's Most Carefully Built Car
>http://www.imperialclub.com/YearbyYear/1960/Kenyon/Page01.htm
>1973 Imperial LeBaron - Long Low & Luxurious
>http://www.imperialclub.com/YearbyYear/1973/wills/
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