>Your battery connections are clean and shiney right? This includes the gnd wire
> attachment to the body.
Yup. The ground is new when I converted to 12V. The rest --well, make
that "the other" now -- is clean.
> Here's one to try at night with the garage lights off. Turn on the headlights
> and try to turn the starter motor. If the head lights dim big time,
They don't.
> If the headlamps do not dim big time, you are not getting electricity to the
> motor windings, or at least not enough.
Aha! I'll check that connection (see DQ#2).
> Dumb question #1
>
> You did remember to replace the braided ground wire between the engine and the
> chassis, right? and you know that you had good electrical connections at both
> sides of the ground wire.
Yes, that's in solid. Dumb question #1A -- on the 18G engine I took
out, the ground connected on the carb side of the block (actually to the
front plate of the engine and the engine mount). On the 18V engine I
put in, the ground connected on the plug side of the block (same
actually). Now I can't think of any reason why it would NOT work if
the ground was moved from one side of a big piece of conductive metal
to the other side... can anyone?
> Dumb question #2
>
> You mentioned all those lovely wires on one post of the solenoid. You checked
> the wire going between the other side and the starter motor?
That's what I now suspect. It's not really a wire -- it's a metal strap
that is bolted to the other post at one end, and disappears into the middle
of the starter motor at the other. I'm going to give a good tightening to
the post just for yuks.
--Scott
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