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starting problems on 12A will not crank at all.

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Old 03-13-08, 08:46 PM
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starting problems on 12A will not crank at all.

Ok heres the deal I get in my car yesterday to go to work and the car wont start the starter solenoid works but it wont turn over I sat there for about 15 minutes trying to get it to start and nothing so today I was going to replace the starter figured it was bad come to find oout the starter works fine so then I put a wrench on the cranck and was going to try to turn it and I could not move it at all so I figured I take the plugs out once I did that I maneged to turn the engine one turn got in the car and tryed to crank it and it did ok weird put the plugs back in and got ikt to start ran fine idles good let it run for about 10-15 minutes then cut it off and went to grab something to eat when I came back about 1 hour later and tryed to start it once again same problem as before it will not turn over can somebody tell my what ta hell is going on with it I am all out of ideas.
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Old 03-13-08, 09:15 PM
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I'm in the same situation myself, and found this write up. Read it, it will help

http://www.nellump.net/peri/epi/gen7Techs/starters.html
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well me starter is good that s what I was thinking at first. But it is the engine that gets seized up once you cut the car off and let it coll off that is when it does it again and untill you get out and manually turn over the engine it will not turn over with the starter at all.
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How do you know the starter is still good? Did you have it tested somwhere?
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Bad connection in the starter wiring, restricting the amount of juice going to the starter? Might be a good place to start...
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Originally Posted by Kentetsu
Bad connection in the starter wiring, restricting the amount of juice going to the starter? Might be a good place to start...
the cables are aluminium and corode after 20 years could be the problem..

are your terminals on tight..
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Clean off the terminals and battery posts with a wire brush. Such as the $4 internal/external brush you can get at any autostore.
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I have replaced both of the wires ground and positive like I sead it is not the problem with the starter not getting power but once the potor is shut off and cools off it will lock up somehow and I have to use a socket with a long ratchet to turn it over and it takes lot of effort but once it is moving everything is fine and the starter will turn it just fine.
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