RE: IML: car starts when it wants/ Starter?

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

The starter is a great place to begin. Easy to change and relatively inexpensive.

My experience has been that starters which have gone bad simply stopped working. Never had one actually "grind to a halt". I hope that is your problem. I won't mention the other possibilities that are crossing through my simple mind.

The original starter on my '60 LeBaron (probably the same as your '59 unit) did fail in an unusual way back in the late 1980's. I thought that it had been acting up over the years, so the failure was not a surprise at the time. It stopped working suddenly one day, but when it did, melted metal poured out of it onto the ground under the car. I was able to drive it home after rolling it down the hill with the ignition on and engaging the "1" button upon reaching 20 mph.

I bought a new starter and all was well until the bigger surprise one day that I still had my old problem of nothing happening upon turing the key (on occassion). It turned out that problem was never the starter in the first place, but rather the neutral safety switch, since replaced.

I never did find out why the original starter failed, and in such an unusual way. I may still have it in the garage and may take a look one day.

Paul

In an email dated Tue, 15 3 2005 11:53:51 pm GMT, "Steve B." <imperial59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>I thought it was worse with heat, no its just worse as the days go by. I
>am showing 12.81v on the battery AFTER I tried for 2-3 seconds to start
>it, nowhere near the correct rpm (dragged to a stop almost). The battery
>was showing 14.60v when the car was running the other day. Got to be the
>starter Right??? This mini starter, I can just ask for a starter for a
>19?? Dakota. -Charles
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>Seems to me that it must be the starter. ?I would imagine the bearing
>inside have failed causing the internal parts to bind. ?
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> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Steve B.
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