From: Jay (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 19:47:20 PDT
OK, this may seem silly, and it might not help at all, BUT...
If it doesn't start the first time, can you run a 10 or 12 gauge wire
jumper (with INSULATED alligator clip ends) direct from the battery to
the "+" side of the coil, and then crank it again? If the starter is
creating too much resistance through the original wiring circuit, that
might help give it enough power to start. Then, once it's running,
simply pull the wire off the battery first, and then the coil. Just a
thought. (Be VERY careful not to let the coil bite you, of course.)
Lot'sa luck.
Jay Travis
Everette wrote:
>Esteemed listers!!!
>
>I need some help - or at least some sympathy - I have an M37 that I have had
>for several years and just lately it has been hard to start - for the last 4
>or 5 years to start the beast you pulled out choke and stepped on starter
>button -switch on of course- when it had turned over just a few seconds you
>pushed choke in and truck would start.
>
>Now::::
>
>if it does not start this way you will have to pull start it - the more you
>try to start with starter the harder it is to pull start - for it is
>flooded. If you do not choke it a little it will not even try to start. If
>you follow procedures outlined above and it starts and runs for a few
>seconds and dies you just a well get something to pull it with - when you do
>you will only have to pull maybe 20 feet -but if you try starter some more
>it has to be pulled farther before it wall start - this morning I tried
>several times to start with starter - was on trailer and therefore hard to
>pull. Wound up using starter to back off trailer and then had to pull it
>several blocks before it would start blowing black smoke all the time.
>
>P S truck has about 11,000 miles on it. And when I first got it the engine
>had been changed and it took several months to get it to start first time -
>was off so bad I had to pull oil pump to set it so that distributor had
>enough travel to adjust it -- I used the starter several hours before I ever
>got it started the first time.
>
>I have come to conclusion that perhaps starter is drawing so much current to
>turn engine over there is nothing left to fire it with.
>
>Would appreciate any suggestion you could make off list -- selling truck is
>not an option. HAHA
>
>Everette
>
>Still around the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. Though
>I have often passed them by, a day will come, when I shall take, the hidden
>paths that run west of the moon and east of the sun.
>
>
>
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