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Starting problems

04-06-2008, 04:14 PM

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MMiller

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Starting problems

During Christmas I was out using the truck and shut it off. Went to restart after we were done sledding, and nothing, no click, no crank, nothing. I looked over the starter, the cable, the little two pin connector by the battery, and everything was clean and tight. I had my boy hold the key in the start position, and I tapped one time on the front side of the starter solenoid, and it started. It did it once in January, and I pulled the starter off suspecting the starter contacts. They were not bad, but I went ahead and put in the Larry B contacts. Friday night it acted up once, and then yesterday it acted up twice. I've got to get it fixed before I get stranded somewhere. The problem is, it only acts up when I'm away from home. I can go out now and it will start flawlessly 100 times. I'm going out to pull the starter back off, after checking all the connections. I'm also going to pull out the service manaul and find the relay, however I don't think this is the problem.

Anybody got any words of wisdom? The starter is original equipment, 240,000+ part.

Michael

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