Need Dead Deuce Help, Electrical

[tklm539]

Thanks,

No offense taken. I am not sure that the guys at the shop were all that sure themselves. I will pull the batteries and put a pic up on the site. Might not be for a day or so with work.

Thanks for the help



Tom

 

[Manstein]

Go to your local Chevy dealer. We all have a Midtronics battery tester which will load test the batteries and tell you if you have any bad cells, low cold cranking amps or if it needs to be charged. Lots of batteries will test good with other testers and flunk the Midtronics.

The thing about the starter is that they usually only go into fail mode once they are hot. Like you've been driving for a while and stop and the thing gets soaked with ambient heat from the exhaust or motor. I would lean toward a junk battery or batteries.

One other thing. These starters have a double solenoid. There is one mounted directly to the top of the starter and then another to the side of the engine block above the starter. I had a really bad time with the one mounted to the block going bad. I bought 2 of them before I finally bypassed it and now rely on the one mounted to the top of the starter. It fixed my intermittent no start.