please help
12-22-2006, 12:03 PM
#12
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Hendersonville, NC
Posts: 541
RE: please help
ORIGINAL: jthorpe7525
can I use the battery from my truck?
can I use the battery from my truck?
12-22-2006, 12:12 PM
#14
6th Gear Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Maine
Posts: 5,693
RE: please help
ORIGINAL: 7upedition
yup, you eliminated the battery issue when you tried jump starting it, you were using the other vehicles battery to start your car, has your starter been acting up lately? like turning over hard, rrhhhrrhhrhrhhrhr? I'd replace the starter solenoid for $15 and see what happens. What voltage is your battery reading, should be 13-14, preferebly tested w/ load tester.
yup, you eliminated the battery issue when you tried jump starting it, you were using the other vehicles battery to start your car, has your starter been acting up lately? like turning over hard, rrhhhrrhhrhrhhrhr? I'd replace the starter solenoid for $15 and see what happens. What voltage is your battery reading, should be 13-14, preferebly tested w/ load tester.
When I just recently trie to jumpstart mine to move it to the garage, it wasn't working. It helped a little and the lights got brighter, etc. But there just wasn't enough juice to crank her (even when it was hooked up to an LT1. Nothing but clicking. But when I swapped cables to a bigger set, she fired right up.
12-22-2006, 12:44 PM
#16
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,834
RE: please help
If you just need to get it running and it's a manual, get some friends to give you a push...clutch-start it. Get up to around 10-15 mph (in 1st gear w/ clutch pedal down), let go of the clutch and then push it agian and it should be running.....assuming the battery/starter/solenoid is the problem. Worked for me in the past.
BTW, go to O'reilly's or somewhere for your starter solenoid...Autozone parts are crap.
BTW, go to O'reilly's or somewhere for your starter solenoid...Autozone parts are crap.
