Re: JPOR: Starter woes

["Maurice Cox" <maurice_cox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Obi-Wan <bvh@inetnebr.com> wrote:

>I replaced the bendix
>gears, reinstalled the starter, and got the same noises, which I now
>know were coming from the solenoid all along.  It's gone downhill from
>there.

I'm a bit baffled.  You say this noise was coming from the solenoid.  You 
replaced the solenoid and it still makes a grinding noise?

Solenoids should just go 'click'.  The only way I can imagine a solenoid 
would ever make a grinding noise is if it is quickly moving back and forth - 
which to me would imply either a bad ground, or as someone stated earlier, a 
bad connection to the ignition switch (maybe the switch itself).

Did you try hotwiring the solenoid?  (disconnect the starter first!)

Mo
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Maurice Cox
Cleveland, Ohio
81 CJ8  360/T19/NP205/D60s -- under construction
92 XJ   4.0/AX15/NP231
79 SJ   Just about gone

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