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    Non-starting Mystery!

    Have a 1995 GM that has a new starter/alternator/battery. Approx 186K and every few months it has a non-start condition. I could start it, let it run or drive around town for a couple of hours and park it. Without touching it the next time it won't start and not even "click". We are talking like you removed the battery! Cleaned and re-tightened the bat cables at the battery and starter (the cable to the starter is also new). Check for "draws" and can not find a single one. I'll put a jump starter on it and it fires right up! Seems like a bad connection but I'll be dammed if I can find it! Any thoughts???? Bobby


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    #2
    whats the little wire at the starter look like? Sometimes that gets fuzzy and causes this problem.
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    I drive a Lincoln. I can't be bothered to shift like the peasants and rabble rousers

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      #3
      Is there more than one wire to the starter? Thought there was only one and it was changed. The factory one had a TSB saying to change it in case of difficulties.


      "Hope and dignity are two things NO ONE can take away from you - you have to relinquish them on your own" Miamibob

      "NEVER trade your passion for glory"!! Sal "the Bard" (Dear Old Dad!)

      "Cars are for driving - PERIOD! I DON'T TEXT, TWEET OR TWERK!!!!"

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        #4
        2 wires on the starter. The battery feed and the s terminal. When you say it 'acts as if the battery is removed', you're saying that the interior lights and stuff cut out as well?

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          #5
          yeah, on a 95 it has a fat wire to the battery, and a smaller wire as a trigger for the solenoid. I think its 14 ga or something and has a push-on terminal. If you've ever worked on a Chevy starter, its pretty much exactly the same down there.
          86 Lincoln Town Car (Galactica).
          5.0 HO, CompCams XE258,Scorpion 1.72 roller rockers, 3.55 K code rear, tow package, BHPerformance ported E7 heads, Tmoss Explorer intake, 65mm throttle body, Hedman 1 5/8" headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, ASP underdrive pulley

          91 Lincoln Mark VII LSC grandpa spec white and cranberry

          1984 Lincoln Continental TurboDiesel - rolls coal

          Originally posted by phayzer5
          I drive a Lincoln. I can't be bothered to shift like the peasants and rabble rousers

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            #6
            Yes, when it is "acting up" there are no interior lights and even the light under the hood is out! If a wire to the starter was bad wouldn't you get interior or under hood lights??


            "Hope and dignity are two things NO ONE can take away from you - you have to relinquish them on your own" Miamibob

            "NEVER trade your passion for glory"!! Sal "the Bard" (Dear Old Dad!)

            "Cars are for driving - PERIOD! I DON'T TEXT, TWEET OR TWERK!!!!"

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              #7
              My usual cause for that sort of thing is a flaky neutral safety switch.
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                #8
                Now THAT is not something I would have thought of but how does that affect the under hood light not coming on and the fact that jumping the car starts it right up???


                "Hope and dignity are two things NO ONE can take away from you - you have to relinquish them on your own" Miamibob

                "NEVER trade your passion for glory"!! Sal "the Bard" (Dear Old Dad!)

                "Cars are for driving - PERIOD! I DON'T TEXT, TWEET OR TWERK!!!!"

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                  #9
                  When this happens what is the voltage at the battery? If you have plenty of juice there, I would start checking grounds (cleaning and tightening).
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                  Originally posted by Lincolnmania
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