spitfires
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Longer starter solenoid life??

To: Barry Schwartz <v6spitfireguy@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Longer starter solenoid life??
From: Henry Stike <stiker2126@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:28:01 -0800 (PST)
 it doesnt work, just jump across the 2 big wires with
channel locs... works good.. :-)

Henry Stike


uhhhh, I dont know, but when
--- Barry Schwartz <v6spitfireguy@cox.net> wrote:

> After finally finding out that the no cranking
> problem was not the battery,
> or the wiring, or the charging system, or the
> starter itself,  but was in
> fact a starter solenoid that clicked loudly but
> didn't allow enough current
> to engage or turn the starter, I wondered exactly
> what could go wrong so
> quickly with such a simple device.  After all, it
> was only a few years old.
>  So I took it apart to see just what the problem
> was.  Turns out that its a
> poor design which allowed carbon to build up on the
> contacts, and on one
> set so much that it was entirely black effectively
> rendering it useless for
> any significant current handling capacity (the
> contact design should scrub
> themselves clean when in operation, something this
> design obviously did not
> do).  Anyway, I was wondering if using a capacitor,
> similar to the one
> across the points would cut this arcing to a minimum
> and provide a much
> longer solenoid life.  I realize the solenoid is a
> relatively easy item to
> replace, and not terribly expensive, but it is an
> inconvenience to be stuck
> anywhere and if this would prevent this type of
> failure from occurring, it
> would be well worth it.
> What do ya think?  It's certainly easy enough to do
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 


===  This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register
===     http://www.vtr.org



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>