Re: Starter Saga Part 2

From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu May 04 2006 - 22:47:57 PDT


I have the box in front of me and this is what is on the box:
=======================
ACDELCO
75N2
   1 #15591718

GR .2.100 MADE IN
RELAY ASM CHINA
=======================
The bar code on the other side has the same number: 15591718

This is the under dash relay.

Hope this helps.
Bruce MVPA 23824

Ed wrote:

>OK here we go with today's trials and tribulations. I had my M-1009 towed
>to a shop where the owner and I are best friends so I could work on the
>beast myself. I pulled the brand new, not rebuilt, brand new military issue
>starter and found some liquid had dripped from the body and hardened, not
>too good so far! I sent it off for a check out and repair. Amazingly
>enough all that was wrong was the Bendix which they replaced and bench
>checked the unit, it was pronounced good to go! $35.00 spent so far.
>
>While it was at the shop I went through the wiring and found four fused
>wires running from the firewall area to the positive buss in the engine
>compartment on the passengers side. I cut and spliced the wiring from below
>the fused links up to the buss bar, installed end connectors, tightened
>everything up and started to reconnect the battery cables, I had removed all
>four "just in case"! I tightened all by hand except the negative at the
>front of the front battery. I had one of the Mechanics stand by to connect
>it while I tried a start. All lights came on as normal, waited for the wait
>light to go out and turned the key, NOTHING! No clicks, no spinning Bendix
>and no smoke, nothing! I checked the power coming from the batteries into
>the buss bar and had over 24 VDC so power is there.
>
>At this point we ran out of time and had to leave for the day. Both of us
>are Members of our Local Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department and had to go to
>our weekly meeting.
>
>I'm thinking that in the morning I will have to remove that entire wire
>bundle and replace it with new wiring from start to finish?? Any thoughts
>before I do that?? BTW we are going back in with a GM type relay because
>after going to three parts stores, getting no response from any of the
>idiots working there I was fed up with wasting time and went with the part
>number that a fellow lister gave me for the GM replacement relay, NAPA AR
>135 is the part number that I am trying but it has an extra blade that
>doesn't match up with the plug. The plug has a blank where the extra blade
>is in the AR 135, is this the correct starter relay replacement or is this
>the problem? I'd sure like to find out before I tackle replacing that wire
>bundle!!
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Ed
>
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>precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it."
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