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Hello, Gerrit! The only short I've found so far was the run wire to the solenoid. The exhaust manifold runs right next to the starter, and it looked like the wire had come too close to the manifold. I wrapped it and routed it away from the manifold. After doing that the arcing between the negative battery cable and post stopped, and the starter no longer tried to turn over the engine whenever the negative cable touched the battery post. How did you rewire the starter solenoid with a relay? I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of the electrical system in the car. That's definitely the system I understand least. Thanks for your help! David --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Gerrit Dijkstra <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gerrit Dijkstra <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FGF] 68 won't start To: "First Generation Firebird-L" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 5:08 PM First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Hi David, I think you should inspect the cabling. a puff of smoke - maybe another part of the wiring is also fried causing a short somewhere? Did you find out why there was a short anyway? Maybe rewire the starter solenoid with a relay too? I did it; simplifies the starting circuit, more current to the starter and saves the starter lock (starter solenoid current does not eat the starter lock anymore). Gerrit http://www.rgp.nl/bird ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/>
