A battery will do that, esspecially if it was warm, than a cold front came through and chilled it down quickly.

 

Any word on this? Just wondering if it started hooking to just the battery cables


Maybe he isn't up yet

 

older veh s. when safety on clutch was bad you could pull start them. switch just would not let starter crank

---AutoMerged DoublePost---

try to wire around switch on clutch and see if it will crank

 

BBRRRR gotta let it warm up some before my old fart butt goes to work outside, it's cold. It's just now climbin over the 18 degree mark and spose to get all the way up to 22 this afternoon. Be much nicer to work on it then, right. Come on help me convince myself.

 

Someone is getting soft in his old age

 

this is going to sound stupid but is there an oil leaking down on the starter my old camaro used to leak down on the starter and would brake the ground between the starter and the block

 

Got to thinkin about this. I'm a little slow ya know, I gotta ponder things for a while before they sink in. This shouldn't be the issue or the solenoid wouldn't click if the safety was activated cause it would shut it down also. Not that I may not try this if I don't find the problem someplace else.

Had the battery tested today and it checked out. Not that I haven't had bad ones also check out as fine in the past but at least I tried.

If by soft you mean fat n lazy, all I gotta say is, damn I gotta figure out where you got your camera hid that you can see me that well.

Nope motor bay is clean as hell considerin the age of this thing and lack of maintenance.


Can't find my Ohm meter right now so I'll throw a new cable from the battery to the starter and give that a shot in the mornin. Checked the grounds and cleaned them off, they all looked good to begin with though. Spent today pullin the new starter off and puttin the old one back on. If that wasn't the problem I'm gettin my money back on it.

 

And Whitmore takes the cookie on this one. Turns out the ground was bad. The cable was frayed and corroded inside the sheath. Threw a new cable on it and found a better grounding spot and it fired right up.

Thanks all.

 

Good to hear. Good job Whitmore
I bet he's had his share of cookies

 

Back to the drawin board here. It's been runnin great and last night I shut it of to run in the house, 5 minutes later it was dead to the bone.

The meter tells me that the battery is holdin 11.5 in it and I have checked continuity from the battery, alternator, starter and fuse panel and battery ground and it all checks out that it's passin 11.5 through it.

I changed the 60amp fuse, new starter, new battery, new cables and had the Alternator checked to day and all is good there.

When I turn the key there is nothin. No door chime, no lights and not even the solenoid click. Now the trick, most of time this stuff holds true. Every once in a while I turn the key and the door chimes go, and the starter will click for a few seconds but then it all drains and goes dead within seconds. But the battery is still charged.

This is aggravating. I like these little trucks cause they are so cheap and simple but this is kickin my tail.