Adam, You can trouble shoot the circuits in a couple of ways, multi-meter is good, or some folks are more comfortable with a test light as David has suggested. Have you verified that the battery that you're using will start another engine. I've seen this problem a few times and 9/10 the battery hasn't got the balls to crank and engine, but will deliver power to accessories etc for hours. I'd make sure that it will start another engine if you can do that easily. There's something we've overlooked here, probably one of those things a mate can spot in 2 minutes. They say never ever give up, but this problem has been tough to find.
regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Jackson Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2002 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: starte motor question Terry, I haven't had a chance to check all the leads, but it does seem as tho there is no power getting to the starter when the ignition is turned. I can't figure out why it wouldn't get power tho, as if the solenoid gets power it clicks(this happens), starter earthed to engine....The only place i could be losing power is the contacts on the solenoid right? that's where teh starter should get it's power from isn't it? Just thinking out loud. If i hook the negative (on the multimeter) upto the battery negative and positive to starter maybe that will tell me the engine isn't grounding correctly?? When everything is hooked up(battery etc..) i can put the multimeter on the starter and positive on battery and get power, that tells me it's earthing doesn't it? Either something is obstructing the pin from pushing out far enough to hit the solenoid contacts or the contacts are stuffed? Thanks very much for asking in the sr20transplants group. cheers, Adam --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
