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Andy: Good point about numbers in service. I have been tempted to buy another lawn mower relay and dissect it to to see the construction...probably someone has already posted that and I missed it.I did it to my 1009. The GM relay seems to have a reputation for failing in the closed position.
Though it could be that whatever lawnmower relay we replace them with will have just as much liklihood of doing the same. There's far more with stock GM starter relays installed (with alot more cycles on them) so it stands to reason we'd hear about GM starter relays failing with more frequency.
I'm a paranoid soul, so I plan to install a kill switch on the starter cable. If I can find one properly rated, one of the big red button E-stops would be good, I think.
A gear reduction starter? Like for 12V system gassers? Didn't know that was possible. If you don't mind my asking--- what voltage/model/brand?... I took the opportunity to install a gear reduction starter. It's nice to know the DH relay mod should prevent this from ever happening again. Thanks Doghead!
So how far did the apple fall?Older son (from whom I got the beast) actually did it but neglected to reinstall the setup under the dash. I managed to bump it and had it ground out against the dash, which smoked the starter!
Redid the conversion and attached the damn thing to the dash and then got the starter rebuilt.
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