Can anyone recommend a good site for automotive trouble shooting?
There are tons of them out there, but lots of them seem too vague for me.
I'm a novice, so I need explicit information -- I suppose that's hard
w/o discussing the specific car.
I have almost all the car manuals available, and usually even buy the
official Ford shop manuals, but the trouble shooting in all of them is
lacking -- at least at my level.
As an example:
My '93 Ranger's starter motor suddenly would not turn over.
Only a single click from the solenoid. The trouble shooting guides
mentioned whether or not the solenoid clicked, but I wasn't sure if they
meant one click or a bunch of them.
So, after staring at solenoid for a while -- and it didn't say anything,
I decided to crawl under the truck and stare at the starter motor for a
while. I touched the main cable leading to the starter hoping it would
notice I was there and would say something to me and sure enough the
connector had broken off.
After reading some basic stuff about what a solenoid does in Dan
Masters' Triumph book and on the web, I've concluded that a single click
must mean the solenoid works but something at the starter end is amiss.
A ratcheting sound or multiple clicks means a battery problem or the
solenoid is bad?
So that's the level I'm at and the kind of info I need.
Any good sites?
Don Malling
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