General Rotary Tech Support Use this forum for tech questions not specific to a certain model year
Sponsored by:
Sponsored by: CARiD

cranks then stops

Old Sep 10, 2015 | 09:41 PM
  #1  
meetRoX7e's Avatar
Thread Starter
Full Member
Tenured Member 10 Years
iTrader: (6)
 
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 181
Likes: 5
From: Texas
cranks then stops

I'm going to describe this the best way that I can. I have a 1993 Rx-7, the problem that I am having is that when I slowly turn the key (normal turning speed) to start nothing happens. In order to get the car to crank I have to quickly turn the key from on to run. Once I do that it will crank for 1-2 seconds then stops. If I do that a few times I can get the car to start. I was suggested to test the ignition switch which I did and came to the conclusion that it was faulty. I bought I new ignition switch and tested it before I installed it, everything checked out. Hoping that that would fix my issue it did not. I'm at a loss for ideas and need some help, any information would be helpful.
Reply
Old Sep 11, 2015 | 02:22 AM
  #2  
misterstyx69's Avatar
Retired Moderator, RIP
Tenured Member: 20 Years
iTrader: (142)
 
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 25,581
Likes: 136
From: Smiths Falls.(near Ottawa!.Mapquest IT!)
Check and clean the battery connections,especially the cables to the Engine and the starter itself.Make sure that you have a good ground off the battery to the engine.(The starter would have good ground to the engine,obviously as it is atteched..lol!)
Corrosion acts in mysterious ways and you can have a perfectly cranking car one day and a "WTF is goin on??" car the next!
Reply
Old Sep 11, 2015 | 05:50 AM
  #3  
meetRoX7e's Avatar
Thread Starter
Full Member
Tenured Member 10 Years
iTrader: (6)
 
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 181
Likes: 5
From: Texas
I will have to check that check that out today. I also failed to mention that I recently replaced the battery with a 550cca battery, that didn't help any.
Reply
Old Sep 11, 2015 | 08:28 AM
  #4  
misterstyx69's Avatar
Retired Moderator, RIP
Tenured Member: 20 Years
iTrader: (142)
 
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 25,581
Likes: 136
From: Smiths Falls.(near Ottawa!.Mapquest IT!)
well..no that wouldn't help as the battery itself would not have had anything to do with the problem.Besides it is about half the Cranking amps of a regular battery.
If you run a smaller CCA'd battery you'd better make sure that your car is mechanically sound and will start pretty well every time,because if you encounter flooding situations that thing will drain very quickly and leave you stationary.
Reply
Old Sep 11, 2015 | 11:09 AM
  #5  
meetRoX7e's Avatar
Thread Starter
Full Member
Tenured Member 10 Years
iTrader: (6)
 
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 181
Likes: 5
From: Texas
The battery I had before was 440cca which is why I upgraded. It started fine until one day it started with the problem. So I got the 680ca 550cca to help out, or at least I thought it would. I haven't run into flooding issues with the microtech ecu, even with driving right after start up.
Reply
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Aramir
New Member RX-7 Technical
24
Oct 18, 2015 02:39 AM
Rotafuzz
New Member RX-7 Technical
3
Sep 30, 2015 09:55 AM
baix2
Power FC Forum
1
Sep 28, 2015 09:40 AM


Thread Tools
Search this Thread

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:51 AM.