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Old 11-30-2004, 12:05 AM
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what would be the signs of a starter that is bad?
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whats your doin?


well, I suppose its usually the car turning over slow or not at all (solenoid bad). gets worse in the winter because the battery isnt as strong and the engine is harder to turn over when its cold. other things too like a worn bendix makin a grinding noise on startup.
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Old 11-30-2004, 12:15 AM
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Yeah... when it starts grinding you have to pop the hood and turn the belt by hand a little to get the teeth on the flywheel repositioned on the teeth on the starter. The starter on my Hummer went out like ten million times and I learned how to replace it blind folded.
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Old 11-30-2004, 12:27 AM
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whats your doin?


well, I suppose its usually the car turning over slow or not at all (solenoid bad). gets worse in the winter because the battery isnt as strong and the engine is harder to turn over when its cold. other things too like a worn bendix makin a grinding noise on startup.
car is turning over really slowly and sometimes not at all. have you ever heard of a starter getting heat soaked-when it wont start after the engine has warmed up??
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Old 11-30-2004, 12:31 AM
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Yeah, but that's usually a problem assosiated with big block cars. All the people I know who had that problem got high torque mini-starters and problem solved!
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JDANIEL ON MY 03 COBRA MY STARTER CLICK ONES MAYBE TWICE THEN STARTS BUT THEN IF IT SETS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR ITS CLICK CLICK THEN START WTF
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