ricardoa1
Registered User
Well it was not long till the car get a way of getting on my nerves.
The starter issue is back. Ive been at fixing this for a while. Ive put on a total of 4 autozone starters on the car, and eventually the problem comes back. The car clicks but the starter solenoid seems to not have enough power to slide the starter gear into the flywheel gears and mesh so the starter can then crank. It seems to click and I have to rock the damn car back and fourth in gear so I can align the flywheel with the starter gear. It has done it once or twice the past year or so not so annoying. But its back and every time I get into the car I have to get out and start rolling back and fourth.
Now I keep thinking its the solenoid on the starter. Remeber I have a 94 and I dont have the relay solenoid thats on the fender. To be honest I dont even know where that relay is on my car. Ive changed the red wire pigtail and like I said several starters. Dave took out my alarm kill switch thinking that was the problem. And by chance or a miracle, either by replacing the engine and moving the wires around it seem to have fixed the issue for a period of time.
Doing research some say its a bad ground. Either from the starter to the battery or related area, or its the ground at the motor mount to the frame rails. Some blame the battery terminals, Others change the starter and it fixes it. Hitting the starter with a mallet did the trick in past times. But not sure hitting it is simply rotating the gear and allowing proper engagement or it moves a wire a certain way. Ive used heat blankets on the starter and still it manages to go bad. That area gets very hot and I feel like heat aggrevates the problem. Although last summer I rarely had this problem.
So fixes would be appreciated. But remeber that I have a 94 and I dont have that relay sol on the inner fender by the battery like most of you do.
The starter issue is back. Ive been at fixing this for a while. Ive put on a total of 4 autozone starters on the car, and eventually the problem comes back. The car clicks but the starter solenoid seems to not have enough power to slide the starter gear into the flywheel gears and mesh so the starter can then crank. It seems to click and I have to rock the damn car back and fourth in gear so I can align the flywheel with the starter gear. It has done it once or twice the past year or so not so annoying. But its back and every time I get into the car I have to get out and start rolling back and fourth.
Now I keep thinking its the solenoid on the starter. Remeber I have a 94 and I dont have the relay solenoid thats on the fender. To be honest I dont even know where that relay is on my car. Ive changed the red wire pigtail and like I said several starters. Dave took out my alarm kill switch thinking that was the problem. And by chance or a miracle, either by replacing the engine and moving the wires around it seem to have fixed the issue for a period of time.
Doing research some say its a bad ground. Either from the starter to the battery or related area, or its the ground at the motor mount to the frame rails. Some blame the battery terminals, Others change the starter and it fixes it. Hitting the starter with a mallet did the trick in past times. But not sure hitting it is simply rotating the gear and allowing proper engagement or it moves a wire a certain way. Ive used heat blankets on the starter and still it manages to go bad. That area gets very hot and I feel like heat aggrevates the problem. Although last summer I rarely had this problem.
So fixes would be appreciated. But remeber that I have a 94 and I dont have that relay sol on the inner fender by the battery like most of you do.
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