Heat soak & my starter motor

["ROGER COOPER" <RCOOPER9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How was the car starting prior to installation of the new starter?
RC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark E Blitman" <markblitman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: IML: Heat soak & my starter motor


> 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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